Auguste Pittaud de Forges (5 April 1803 (15 germinal an XI) – 28 September 1881) was a 19th-century French

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes play (theatre), plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for Theatre, theatrical performance rather than just Readin ...

Biography

His full name was Philippe-Auguste-Alfred Pittaud. He began his literary career under the pseudonyms Deforges, de Forge or Desforges. In 1861, he was authorized by imperial decree to officially join to his family name that of de Forges,Georges d'Heylli, �
Pittaud de Forges
», ''Dictionnaire des pseudonymes'', Dentu, Paris, 1887, (p. 353), at Gallica. He also used the

pen name A pen name or nom-de-plume is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen name may be used to make the author's na ...

Paul de Lussan. He wrote many

vaudeville Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France in the middle of the 19th century. A ''vaudeville'' was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a drama ...

s in collaboration with

Adolphe de Leuven Adolphe de Leuven (29 September 1802 – 14 April 1884) was a French theatre director and a librettist. Also known as Grenvallet, and Count Adolph Ribbing. He was the illegitimate son of Adolph Ribbing, who was involved in the assassination of ...

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 of ...

Jean-François Bayard Jean-François Alfred Bayard (; 17 March 1796, Charolles, Saône-et-Loire – 20 February 1853, Paris) was a French playwright. He was the nephew of fellow playwright Eugène Scribe. Life As a law student and a lawyer's clerk, Bayard wrote with ...

, Louis-Émile Vanderburch, Clairville, Adrien Robert, as well as

libretto A libretto (From the Italian word , ) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or Musical theatre, musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to th ...

s of several opéras comiques and

operetta Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs and including dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, and length of the work. Apart from its shorter length, the oper ...

s for

Jacques Offenbach Jacques Offenbach (; 20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera ''The Tales of Hoffmann''. He was a p ...

such as ''

L'alcôve ''L'alcôve'' is a one-act opéra comique with music by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Philippe Auguste Pittaud de Forges, Adolphe de Leuven and Eugène Roche, first performed in 1847 and one of the earliest surviving stage works in t ...

'', an opéra comique in one act (1847), ''Luc et Lucette'', opéra comique in one act (1854), ''Paimpol et Périnette'', a

saynète A sainete (farce or titbit) was a popular Spanish comic opera piece, a one-act dramatic vignette, with music. It was often placed at the end of entertainments, or between other types of performance. It was vernacular in style, and used scenes of lo ...

in one act (1855), ''

Le 66 ''Le 66'' is an opérette in one act of 1856 with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was by Auguste Pittaud de Forges and Laurencin ( Paul Aimé Chapelle). Lamb A., "Jacques Offenbach (List of stage works)" in: ''The New Grove Dictio ...

'', operetta in one act (1856), ''Les vivandières de la grande-armée'', an operetta bouffa in one act (1859), ''Fleurette, oder Trompeter und Näherin'' (composed as ''Fleurette'' c. 1863), an opéra comique in one act (1872),

Adolphe Adam Adolphe Charles Adam (; 24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) was a French composer, teacher and music critic. A prolific composer for the theatre, he is best known today for his ballets ''Giselle'' (1841) and ''Le corsaire'' (1856), his operas ''Le post ...

(''Le Bijou perdu'', 1853 ; ''Les Pantins de Violette'', 1856), Friedrich von Flotow (''La veuve Grapin'' (revised in 1861 as '' Madame Bonjour'')), etc. Knighted on 5 June 1850, he was named an officer of the

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ...

on 12 August 1862. He was also a commander of the

Order of St. Gregory the Great The Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great (; ) was established on 1 September 1831, by Pope Gregory XVI, seven months after his election as Pope. The order is one of the five Papal order of knighthood, orders of knighthood of th ...

(Vatican), commander of the

Order of Isabella the Catholic The Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic (; Abbreviation, Abbr.: OYC) is a knighthood and one of the three preeminent Order of merit, orders of merit bestowed by the Kingdom of Spain, alongside the Order of Charles III (established in 1771) and ...

(Spain), officer in the

Order of Léopold The Order of Leopold (, , ) is one of the three current Belgian national honorary orders of knighthood. It is the oldest and highest order of Belgium and is named in honour of its founder, King Leopold I. It consists of a military, a mari ...

(Belgium) and knight of the

Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus The Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus () (abbreviated OSSML) is a Roman Catholic dynastic order of knighthood bestowed by the royal House of Savoy. It is the second-oldest order of knighthood in the world, tracing its lineage to AD 1098, a ...

(Italy) Reconstitution de matricules, Grande Chancellerie de la Légion d'honneur, 5 mars 1872 (cf. Iconography).

Iconography

File:Reconstitution de l'acte de naissance d'Auguste Pittaud à Paris par l'accoucheur de bâtards, Jacques Bigot.jpeg, Reconstituted birth certificate (recto) File:Reconstitution de l'acte de naissance d'Auguste Pittaud avec le rectificatif de nom par l'ajout de de forges.jpeg, Reconstituted birth certificate (verso) File:Reconstitution des matricules pour Auguste Pittaud de Forges.jpg, Acte reconstitutif des distinctions

Bibliography

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 ...

, �
Deforges (Philippe-Auguste Pittaud)
», ''Dictionnaire universel des littératures'', Paris, Hachette, 1876, (p. 497-p–98), at Gallica

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