Louis-Émile Vanderburch (30 September 1794 – 30 March 1862) was a 19th-century French writer and playwright. The painter Dominique Joseph Vanderburch (1722–1785) was his grandfather.

Biography

After he started a career in teaching as a professor of history, Vanderburch turned to literature and more specifically to theatre. From 1816, he authored more than a hundred theatre plays, some of which were met with great success. From 1836 to 1853, he lived in the of

La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin () is a commune in the French department of Loiret, region of Centre-Val de Loire. The village is located in the natural region of France of the Loire Valley and in the metropolis of Orléans. It is one of the 22 town o ...

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Loiret Loiret (; ) is a department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of north-central France. It takes its name from the river Loiret, which is contained wholly within the department. In 2019, Loiret had a population of 680,434.

) which now houses the city hall of this town of 10,000 inhabitants.

Works

;Theatre (selection) *1835: ''Jacques II'' *1836: ''Le Gamin de Paris'' *1838: ''Clermont, ou Une femme d'artiste'' (with

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) *1846: ''Une nuit au Louvre'' *1854: ''Le Sanglier des Ardennes'' *1855: ''Le sergent Frédéric'',

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(with

Dumanoir Philippe François Pinel (), known as Dumanoir (; 31 July 1806 – 16 November 1865), was a French playwright and librettist. Biography Dumanoir was born in Capesterre-Belle-Eau, Guadeloupe. He was the son of Mrs. Pinel-Dumanoir, whose family ...

) *1863: ''Peau d'âne'' ;Other *1816: ''L'Épingle noire'' *1847: ''Scènes contemporaines laissées par Madame la Vicomtesse de Chamilly'', , 1828 collective pseudonym of François-Adolphe Loève-Veimars,

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and Vanderburch. *1832: ''Souvenirs de France, d'Écosse et d'Angleterre pendant les règnes de François I, Henri II, François II, Marie Stuart et Elisabeth''. *1841-1843: ''Le Gamin de Paris à Alger''. *1851: ''Histoire militaire des Français. À l'usage des écoles régimentaires et des écoles communales''.

Bibliography

Émile Chevalet Émile Chevalet (1 November 1813 – 14 January 1894) was a 19th-century French man of letters, journalist, historian and librettist. Biography While he was a notary's clerk in the province, Chevalet published a novel in 1832: ''Amélie ou la ...

, ''Les 365. Annuaire de la littérature et des auteurs contemporains'', 1858.« Voilà M. Émile Vanderburch qui a obtenu dans le vaudeville des succès étourdissants ..: on se souvient de la vogue du ''Gamin de Paris'', de ''Clermont ou la Femme artiste''. Est-ce ambition ? Est-ce absence d'idées à vaudevilles ? M. Vanderburch a, un beau jour, renoncé au théâtre et s'est mis à fabriquer des romans de mœurs et puis il vous a taillé à grands coups de ciseaux, une histoire de France. » . * Charles Vander-Burch Fils, ''Biographie d'un homme de lettres'', Imprimerie veuve Théolier Ainé et Cie, In-8°, 19 pages, Saint-Etienne, 1863, published by the Bnf, availabl
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Funds Vanderburch

From a gift of Philippe Collin, his great-nephew, the Émile Vanderburch funds gathers at the

Bibliothèque nationale de France The (; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites, ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository of all that is published in France. Some of its extensive collections, including bo ...

(Department of Performing Arts) personal papers, the manuscripts of 9 unpublished plays and 8 published plays, 4 collections of poetry and songs, 3 handwritten works of his youth, intimate writings, correspondence, programs, documents related to his theatrical activity and press articles.

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