Édouard Martin, full name Édouard Joseph Martin, (19 July 1825 – 13 July 1866 ) was a 19th-century French

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. When he was a young dramatist and a friend of

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and

Théophile Gautier Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier ( , ; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and rema ...

, Édouard Martin was known for the comedies he wrote in collaboration with

Eugène Labiche Eugène Marin Labiche (; 6 May 181522 January 1888) was a French dramatist. He remains famous for his contribution to the vaudeville genre and his passionate and domestic pochades. In the 1860s, he reached his peak with a series of successe ...

, Albert Monnier and

Paul Siraudin Pierre-Paul-Désiré Siraudin (18 December 1812 – 8 September 1883) was a French playwright and librettist. He also used the pen names Paul de Siraudin de Sancy, Paul Siraudin de Sancy and M. Malperché. Biography He wrote many plays, main ...

, during the

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. Suffering from mental illness in 1864, he died at the municipal nursing home Dubois (today

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) 13 July 1866. At his burial at Saint-Denis on 14 July, it was Léon Gozlan who delivered his eulogy. Lockroy (dir.), ''Annuaire de la Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques'', Paris, 1867, (p. 259).

Works

*1853: ''Collégiens, étudiants et mercadets pour rire'' *1855: ''Sous un parapluie'', with Albert Monnier and Paul Siraudin *1859: ''Madame Absalon'', with Paul Siraudin *1860: ''Jeune de cœur'', with

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*1863: ''La Fleur des braves'', withavec Ernest Mouchelet

Plays written in collaboration with Labiche and/or Monnier

*1852: ''L'Argent par les fenêtres'' *1852: ''Le Droit de visite'' *1855: ''Un oncle aux carottes'' *1856: ''As-tu tué le mandarin ?'' *1857: '' L'Affaire de la rue de Lourcine'' *1857: '' Les Noces de Bouchencœur'' *1858: ''Chez une petite dame'' *1859: '' L'Amour, un fort volume, prix 3 F 50 c'' *1859: '' Les Petites Mains'' *1860: '' Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon'' *1860: ''Le Pantalon de Nessus'' *1861: '' Les Vivacités du capitaine Tic'' *1861: '' La Poudre aux yeux'' *1862: ''Le Bataillon de la Moselle'' *1862: '' Les 37 Sous de M. Montaudoin'' *1863: '' La Commode de Victorine'' *1864: ''

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'' *1864: ''Les Truffes'' *1864: ''Le Petit de la rue du Ponceau'' *1865: ''Histoire d'une patrouille'' *1867: '' La Main leste''

References

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