Léon Jonathan was a 19th-century French playwright and

chansonnier A chansonnier (, , Galician and , or ''canzoniéro'', ) is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, or polyphonic and monophonic settings of songs, hence literally " song-books"; however, some manuscripts are call ...

Biography

His plays were presented at the Théâtre Beaumarchais and the Théâtre du Château-d'Eau. He met great success with his plays ''Pierre Vaux, l'instituteur'' ''Revue d'art dramatique'', vol.31-32, 1884, (p. 365) and ''Carnot'', a 5-act drama given on the stage of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu in 1884. Then no further mention of him is known. It is possible, judging by the contentious parts of his plays that the name was a non yet elucidated

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Works

*1880 ''Le Ménétrier de Meudon'',

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 Théâtre de la foire, Fair Theatres of St Germain and S ...

in 3 acts, with Gaston Marot, music by Germain Laurens *1881: ''La Convention nationale'', drama in 6 acts and 8 tableaux *1882: ''Pierre Vaux, l'instituteur'', drama in 5 acts and 7 tableaux, with Louis Péricaud *1884: ''Déjeuner du jour de l'an'', comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Charles Desmarest *1884: ''Carnot'', drama in 5 acts, with Henri Blondeau and

William Busnach William Bertrand Busnach (7 March 1832, Paris – 20 January 1907, Paris) was a French dramatist. Biography Busnach was a nephew of the composer Fromental Halévy. His father was associated with David Ben Joseph Coen Bakri, to whom France was ...

*undated: ''Le Réveil du pauvre homme'', song

Bibliography

* ''Les milles et une nuits du théâtre'', vol.9, 1894, (p. 203) (analyse de la pièce ''Pierre Vaux, l'instituteur'') * Philippe Chauveau, ''Les théâtres parisiens disparus: 1402-1986'', 1999, (p. 144-145)

References

19th-century French dramatists and playwrights {{France-playwright-stub