Eugène de Planard (full name: François-Antoine-Eugène de Planard; ; 4 February 1783 – 13 November 1853) was a 19th-century French playwright. He collaborated with

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (; 29 January 178212 May 1871) was a French composer and director of the Paris Conservatoire. Born into an artistic family, Auber was at first an amateur composer before he took up writing operas professionally when ...

Ferdinand Hérold Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold (28 January 1791 – 19 January 1833), better known as Ferdinand Hérold (), was a French composer. He was celebrated in his lifetime for his operas, of which he composed more than twenty, but he also wrote ballet mus ...

(''Le Pré-aux-clercs'', 1832),

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 pos ...

(''Le Farfadet'', 1852), Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, Michele Enrico Carafa, Jacques-Fromental Halévy (''L’Éclair'', 1835), George Onslow et Ambroise Thomas (''Le Caïd'', 1849 ; ''Le Carnaval de Venise'', 1852). His daughter Eugénie (1818–1874) married the dramatist and librettist

Adolphe de Leuven Adolphe de Leuven (30 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 G ...

(1802–1884).

Works (selection)

* 1832 : ''Le Pré-aux-clercs'',

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 three acts after

Prosper Mérimée Prosper Mérimée (; 28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, and one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, and a ...

, music by

Opéra-Comique The Opéra-Comique is a Paris opera company which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was merged with – and for a time took the name of – its chief rival, the Comédie-Italienn ...

(15 December) * 1835 : ''L’Éclair'', opéra-comique in three acts with

Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges (7 November 1799 – 23 December 1875) was a French playwright, who was born and died in Paris. He was one of the most prolific librettists of the 19th century, often working in collaboration with others. Sa ...

, music by Jacques-Fromental Halévy, Opéra-Comique (16 December) * 1837 : ''La Double Échelle'', opéra comique in one act, music by Ambroise Thomas, Opéra-Comique (23 August) * 1837 : ''Guise ou les États de Blois'' with Saint-Georges, music by George Onslow, Opéra-Comique (8 September) * 1838 : ''Le Perruquier de la Régence'', opéra comique in three acts 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 ...

, music by Ambroise Thomas, Opéra-Comique (30 March) * 1852 : ''Le Farfadet'', opéra comique, music by

, Opéra-Comique (19 March)

Bibliography

* Christian Goubault, « François-Antoine-Eugène de Planard » in Joël-Marie Fauquet (dir.), ''Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXe siècle'',

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, Paris, 2003 () 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights People from Millau 1783 births 1853 deaths {{France-writer-stub