Alexis Decomberousse, full name Alexis Barbe Benoît Decomberousse, (13 January 1793 – 22 November 1862) was a 19th-century French

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...

and

vaudevillist Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th century. A vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition ...

. His

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were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century such as the Théâtre de l'Ambigu,

Théâtre du Palais-Royal The Théâtre du Palais-Royal () is a 750-seat Parisian theatre at 38 rue de Montpensier, located at the northwest corner of the Palais-Royal in the Galerie de Montpensier at its intersection with the Galerie de Beaujolais. Brief history ...

Théâtre des Variétés The Théâtre des Variétés is a theatre and "salle de spectacles" at 7–8, boulevard Montmartre, 2nd arrondissement, in Paris. It was declared a monument historique in 1974. History It owes its creation to the theatre director Mademoisell ...

, Théâtre du Gymnase, Théâtre de la Gaîté, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin etc.).

Works

* ''Le Cocher de fiacre'', melodrama in 3 acts, with Benjamin Antier, 1825 * ''Le Pauvre de l'Hôtel-Dieu'', mélodrama in 3 acts, with Antier, 1826 * ''Le Prisonnier amateur'', comedy mingled with couplets, with

Armand d'Artois Armand d'Artois (3 October 1788 – 28 March 1867) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist, and also Achille d'Artois's brother. Biography Trained for the bar, he first worked as an attorney but the success of his play ''Les Fina ...

Ferdinand Laloue Ferdinand Laloue (1794 in Passy – 27 September 1850) was a French dramatist, librettist and theatre producer. Administrator of the Théâtre du Cirque-Olympique, he also was director of the Hippodrome and the théâtre des Délassements comiques ...

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Frédérick Lemaître Antoine Louis Prosper "Frédérick" Lemaître (28 July 1800 – 26 January 1876) was a French actor and playwright, one of the most famous players on the celebrated Boulevard du Crime. Biography Lemaître, the son of an architect, was bo ...

, 1826 * ''Le Vieil Artiste, ou la Séduction'', melodrama in 3 acts, with Frédérick Lemaître, 1826 * ''Le Fou'', drama in 3 acts, with

Antony Béraud Antony Béraud, real name Antoine-Nicolas Béraud, (11 January 1791 – 6 February 1860) was a French military, chansonnier, writer, poet, historian and playwright. Life In 1809 he entered the École militaire de Saint-Cyr and became second ...

and

Gustave Drouineau Gustave Pierre Drouineau (22 February 1798 – 19 April 1878) was a 19th-century French novelist, poet and playwright. Biography Coming from a family of doctors of La Rochelle, he moved to Paris to study law and live from poetry. In 1826 he obt ...

, 1829 * ''La Maîtresse'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with

Hippolyte Le Roux Hippolyte Le Roux (Paris 1 July 1801 – Paris, 1 July 1860) was a 19th-century French actor and playwright. As an actor, he appeared in '' le Festin de pierre'' at the Théâtre-Français (1847) and in ''La Vieillesse de Richelieu'' (Fronsac) b ...

and Merville, 1829 * ''Le Fils de Louison'', melodrama in 3 acts, with Antier, 1830 * ''L'incendiaire ou la cure et l'archevêché'', drama in 3 acts, with Antier, 1831 * ''Joachim Murat'', historical drama in 4 acts and 9

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, with Antier and

Théodore Nézel Théodore Nézel (25 February 1799 – 23 May 1854) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist. An employee at the ministry of public instruction, he was appointed managing director of the Théâtre du Panthéon in 1838. His plays, o ...

, 1831 * ''Les Jumeaux de La Réole, ou les Frères Faucher'', drama in 3 acts and 7 tableaux, with

Michel-Nicolas Balisson de Rougemont Michel-Nicolas Balisson, baron de Rougemont (27 February 1781 - 16 July 1840), was a French journalist, novelist and dramatist. Biography His family comes from Sourdeval, in Normandy. He invented the ''mot de Cambronne''.Jacques Logie, Wate ...

, 1831 *1832: ''L'Abolition de la peine de mort'', drama in 3 acts and 6 tableaux, with

Benjamin Antier Benjamin Antier, real name Benjamin Chevrillon, (21 March 1787 – 25 April 1870), was a 19th-century French playwright. An author of melodramas and vaudevilles written in collaboration with other dramatists, he is mostly known for his drama '' ...

and J.-S. Raffard-Brienne * ''Une bonne fortune'', comédie vaudeville in 1 act, with Jean-François-Alfred Bayard, 1832 * ''La Fille du soldat'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Ancelot, 1832 * ''La Nuit d'avant'', vaudeville in 2 acts, with Ancelot, 1832 * ''Le Serrurier'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Bayard, 1832 * ''Aimer et mourir'', 1833 * ''Madame d'Egmont ou Sont-elles deux ?'', comedy in 3 acts, with Ancelot, 1833 * ''L'Aspirant de marine'', opéra-comique in 2 acts, with

Edmond Rochefort Edmond Rochefort, full name Claude-Louis-Marie de Rochefort-Luçay (Évaux-les-Bains, 1790 – Paris, April 1871), was a French writer, dramatist, vaudevillist and songs writer. His only play that was met with some success is ''Jocko ou le Singe du ...

, 1833 * ''La consigne'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Ancelot, 1833 * ''Louis XI en goguettes'', vaudeville in 1 act, with F. de Bury, 1833 * ''La Salle de bains'', vaudeville in 2 acts, with Antier, 1833 * ''Les Suites d'une séparation'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with

Paul Duport Nicolas-Paul Duport (22 April 1798 – 26 December 1866) was a French dramatist and librettiste who also wrote under the pen names M. P. D., Paulin and Erbert. Theatre * 1824 : ''Le Beau-frère, ou la Veuve à 2 maris'', comédie-vaudeville in ...

, 1833 * ''Fretillon ou La bonne fille'', vaudeville in 5 acts, with Bayard, 1834 * ''Salvoisy ou L'amoureux de la Reine'', with Michel-Nicolas Balisson de Rougemont and Eugène Scribe, 1834 * ''Le Capitaine de vaisseau ou La salamandre'' ; preceded by ''La carotte d'or'', prologue, vaudeville nautique in 2 acts, with

and

Mélesville Baron Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier, pen-name Mélesville (13 December 1787 in Paris – 7 November 1865 in Marly-le-Roi) was a French dramatist. The playwright Mélesville fils was his son. Life The son of Honoré-Nicolas-Marie Duveyrier, M� ...

, 1834 * ''L'Ami Grandet'', comedy in 3 acts, mingled with couplets, with

Jacques-François Ancelot Jacques-Arsène-Polycarpe-François Ancelot (9 January 1794 – 7 September 1854) was a French dramatist and litterateur. Biography Born in Le Havre, Ancelot became a clerk in the admiralty, and retained his position until the Revolution of ...

, 1834 * ''Le Dernier de la famille'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Ancelot, 1834 * ''Le Domino rose'', comédie-vaudeville-anecdote in 2 acts, with Ancelot, 1834 * ''Un secret de famille'', drama in 4 acts, with Ancelot, 1834 * ''Les Tours de Notre-Dame'', anecdote du temps de Charles VII, with Antier, 1834 * ''Le Père Goriot'', drama-vaudeville in 3 acts, with

Ernest Jaime Jean-François-Ernest Jaime (28 April 1804 – 7 June 1884) was a French watercolourist, lithographer, art historian and playwright. He was the father of dramatist Adolphe Jaime (1824–1901). He collaborated to ''Le Figaro'' and '' La Caric ...

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Emmanuel Théaulon Marie-Emmanuel-Guillaume-Marguerite Théaulon de Lambert (14 August 1787, Aigues-Mortes – 16 November 1841) was a French playwright. A customs inspector, then an inspector of military hospitals, he composed an ''Ode'' on the birth of the King o ...

, 1835 * ''L'Autorité dans l'embarras'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with

, 1835 * ''La Fille mal élevée'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with

Jean-Baptiste-Rose-Bonaventure Violet d'Épagny Jean-Baptiste-Rose-Bonaventure Violet d'Épagny (30 August 1787 – 4 November 1868) was a French playwright, poet, journalist and writer. Biography He studied at Dijon, then moved to Paris to study law. An employee at the Ministry of Foreign ...

, 1835 * ''Le Violon de l'opéra'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with

Augustin-Théodore de Lauzanne de Vauroussel Augustin-Théodore de Lauzanne, chevalier de Vaux-Roussel (4 November 1805 – 15 October 1877) was a 19th-century French playwright. Biography Aged 13, Lauzanne came to Paris where he grew up and developed an interest in literature and especia ...

, 1835 * ''Les Deux Nourrices'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Bayard, 1835 * ''Le Tapissier'', comedy in 3 acts, mingled with songs, with Ancelot, 1835 * ''Avis aux coquettes, ou L'amant singulier'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with

Eugène Scribe Augustin Eugène Scribe (; 24 December 179120 February 1861) was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for writing " well-made plays" ("pièces bien faites"), a mainstay of popular theatre for over 100 years, and as the librettist of m ...

, 1836 * ''Le Colleur'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with B. Antier, 1836 * ''La Liste des notables'', comedy in 2 acts, mingled with couplets, with

Charles Dupeuty Charles Désiré Dupeuty (6 February 1798 – 20 October 1865), was a 19th-century French librettist and playwright. Biography After he studied at the Lycée Impérial, he enrolled in the army during the Hundred Days then worked as an employee ...

, 1836 * ''La Reine d'un jour'', chronique mauresque in 2 acts, with Antier, 1836 * ''La Comtesse du Tonneau, ou Les deux cousines'', 1837 * ''Vive le galop !'', folie-vaudeville in 1 act, with

Cogniard brothers The Cogniard brothers were two French brothers who worked as playwrights and theatre directors, producing an incalculable number of vaudevilles, reviews, féeries and operettas. The elder of the two was Charles-Théodore or Théodore Cogniard ( ...

and

Lubize Lubize, real name Pierre-Michel Martin or Martin-Lubize (21 February 1798 (3 ventôse an VI)

, 1837 * ''Vouloir, c'est pouvoir'', comedy in 2 acts, mingled with song, with Ancelot, 1837 * ''Le Serment de collège'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with couplets, 1838 * ''Un frère de quinze ans'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with

Achille d'Artois Louis Charles Achille d'Artois de Bournonville (17 March 1791 - 2 December 1868) was a French writer, libretist and dramatist. Biography A very prolific librettist, his plays have been performed on the most important Parisian stages during hi ...

, 1838 * ''Le Tireur de cartes'', vaudeville en 1 acte, with Eugène Roche, 1838 * ''Le marché de Saint-Pierre'', melodrama in 5 acts, with Antier, 1839 * ''Le Cheval de Crequi'', comedy in 2 acts and 3 parts, 1839 * ''Les Maris vengés'', comédie-vaudeville in 5 acts, with

Étienne Arago Étienne Vincent Arago (9 February 1802 – 7 March 1892) was a French writer and politician, and co-founder (with Maurice Alhoy) of the newspaper ''Le Figaro''. Early life Arago was born in Perpignan, the youngest of the four Arago brothers. H ...

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Eugène Roche Eugène Honoré Roche (30 April 1808, in Paris – 12 June 1870, in Paris) was a French playwright of the 19th century. His plays were presented on the most prestigious Parisian stages of his time: Théâtre des Variétés, Théâtre des Folies- ...

, 1839 * ''La Grisette de Bordeaux'', vaudeville in 1 act, 1840 * ''L'Honneur d'une femme'', drama in 3 acts, with Antier, 1840 * ''Une journée chez Mazarin'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with

Fulgence de Bury Fulgence de Bury, real name: Joseph Désiré Fulgence de Bury (1 March 1785 – 23 June 1845) was a 19th-century French playwright. A civil servant in the administration, he became known under the pen name Fulgence. His theatre plays were present ...

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Théodore Muret Théodore César Muret (24 January 1808 – 23 July 1866) was a 19th-century French playwright, poet, essayist and historian. Biography Born into a Protestant family expelled from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, he began st ...

, 1840 * ''Van Bruck, rentier'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with

Narcisse Fournier Narcisse Louis Pierre Fournier (24 November 1803 – 24 April 1880) was a French journalist, novelist and playwright. Life He began his literary career aged 22 with two pieces, ''les Secrets de Cœur'' and ''la Poupée''. From then on he prod ...

, 1841 * ''Les Filets de Saint-Cloud'', drama in 5 acts, with B. Antier, 1842 * ''Touboulic le cruel'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Ancelot, 1843 * ''La Polka en Province'', folie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Jules Cordier, 1844 * ''La Sainte-Cécile'',

opéra comique ''Opéra comique'' (; plural: ''opéras comiques'') is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the popular '' opéras comiques en vaudevilles'' of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent (and to a l ...

in 3 acts, with Ancelot, 1844 * ''Un mystère'', comedy in 2 acts, mingled with couplets, with Ancelot, 1844 * ''Juanita ou Volte-face'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Bayard, 1846 * ''La Carotte d'or'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Benjamin Antier and Mélesville, 1846 * ''L'Homme qui se cherche'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with

, 1846 * ''Le chapeau gris, ou Les obstacles'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with

Édouard Brisebarre Edouard-Louis-Alexandre Brisebarre (Paris 12 February 1815 – 17 December 1871 10th arrondissement of ParisArchives numérisées de la Ville de Paris, état-civil du 10ème arrondissement, registre des décès de 1871, acte n° 8643, vue 9/3/ref>) ...

, 1847 * ''La Vapeur d'éther ou sans douleur !'', vaudeville in 1 act, with

Hippolyte Lefebvre In Classical Greek mythology, Hippolyta, or Hippolyte (; grc-gre, Ἱππολύτη ''Hippolytē'') was a daughter of Ares and Otrera, queen of the Amazons, and a sister of Antiope and Melanippe. She wore her father Ares' ''zoster'', the Gr ...

, 1847 * ''Un amant qui ne veut pas être heureux'', vaudeville in 1 act, with

Lubize Lubize, real name Pierre-Michel Martin or Martin-Lubize (21 February 1798 (3 ventôse an VI)

, 1850 * ''Les Trois Coups de pied'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with

Lockroy Joseph-Philippe Simon, called Lockroy (February 17, 1803 – January 19, 1891)Death notice
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Jules Janin Jules Gabriel Janin (16 February 1804 – 19 June 1874) was a French writer and critic. Life and career Born in Saint-Étienne (Loire), Janin's father was a lawyer, and he was educated first at St. Étienne, and then at the lycée Louis-le-Gran ...

, 3 vol, 1864

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Louis Gustave Vapereau Louis Gustave Vapereau (4 April 1819 – 18 April 1906) was a French writer and lexicographer famous primarily for his dictionaries, the ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'' and the ''Dictionnaire universel des littérateurs''. Biography ...

Léon Garnier Léon Garnier (1856 in Lyon – 1905 in Meung-sur-Loire (Loiret)) was a French 19th-century composer and lyricist. Garnier wrote numerous songs with , and particularly two songs, created by Paulus, which were met with enormous success in their ti ...

, ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'', 1865, p. 485
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