Maurice Ourry (19 October 1776 – 19 February 1843) was a French poet, playwright and journalist.

Biography

After his studies at the

College of Juilly The College of Juilly ( French: ''Collège de Juilly'') was a Catholic private teaching establishment located in the commune of Juilly, in Seine-et-Marne (France). Directed by the French Oratorians, it was created in 1638 by the Congregationi ...

, he moved to Paris in 1794. His career was launched with his first

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 ...

, ''La Danse interrompue'', which obtained an important success. But the

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that followed, even if numerous, would not equal the success of the first. An editor by the ''Journal des arts'' and the ''

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'' of which he became chief editor, after the cessation of the newspaper, he founded the ''Nouveau journal de Paris'', solely dedicated to the arts and literature. He also participated to the Encyclopédie des gens du monde'' and to the ''Dictionnaire de la conversation''. His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century, including the

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 The theatre owed its creation to Mademoiselle Montans ...

, the

Théâtre du Vaudeville The Théâtre du Vaudeville () was a theatre company in Paris. It opened on 12 January 1792 on rue de Chartres. Its directors, Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de Piis, Piis and Yves Barré, Barré, mainly put on "petites pièces mêlées de couplets s ...

, and the Théâtre de la Gaîté. A member of the and the ''Soupers de Momus'', seriously ill, he died from an operation in 1843.

Works

* ''La danse interrompue'', vaudeville in 1 act, with

Pierre-Yves Barré Pierre-Yves Barré (; 17 April 1749 – 2 May 1832) was a French vaudevillist and songwriter. Life Barré was born in Paris. He began life as a lawyer to the French parliament, then court clerk in Pau, but as the nephew of the c ...

, 1795 * ''La Ligue des femmes ou le Roman de la rose'', comédie anecdotique in 1 act, in prose mingled with

s, with de Chazet, 1807 * ''Le Loup-garou'', comedy in 1 act and in prose, mingled with

couplet In poetry, a couplet ( ) or distich ( ) is a pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (closed) couplet, each of the two lines is end-stopped, implying that there ...

s, with

Francis baron d'Allarde Marie-François-Denis-Thérésa Le Roy Allarde better known as Francis baron d'Allarde (12 March 1778 – 4 October 1841) was a 19th-century French chansonnier and playwright. Biography The son of the politician Pierre d'Allarde, he was a jo ...

, 1807 * ''Quitte à quitte, ou les Jeunes vieillards'', comedy in 1 act and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, 1807 * ''Les Amours de Braillard, ou Tout le monde en veut'', imitation burlesque des ''Amours de Bayard'' by Monvel, in 1 act, in prose, mingled with couplets, 1808 * ''Le Mari juge et partie'', comédy in 1 act and in verses, with de Chazet, 1808 * ''Monsieur Asinard ou Le volcan de Montmartre'', 1809 * ''M. Asinard ou Le Volcan de Montmartre'', folie in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with de Chazet, 1809 * ''Le fils par hasard, ou Ruse et folie'', comedy in 5 acts, in prose, with de Chazet, 1809 * ''Le Jardin, turc'', folie in 1 act, mingled with couplets, 1809 * ''Les baladines'', imitation burlesque des ''Bayadères'' by Jouy, folie in 1 act, in prose, mingled with couplets, 1810 * ''Le mai d'amour ou Le rival complaisant'', 1810 * ''Les commissionnaires'', 1-act comedy, 1810 * ''Prologue des ''Ruines de Rome'' '', 1810 * ''Le Mai d'amour, ou le Rival complaisant'', comedy in 1 act and in prose, mingled with couplets, with de Chazet, 1810 * ''Les Époux de trois jours, ou J'enlève ma femme'', 2-act comedy in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Commagny, 1810 * ''L'Acteur dans sa loge'', prologue à travestissements, mingled with couplets, with François-Marie Mayeur de Saint-Paul, 1810 * ''Mahomet Barbe-bleue'', imitation burlesque de ''Mahomet II'',

one-act play A one-act play is a play that has only one act, as distinct from plays that occur over several acts. One-act plays may consist of one or more scenes. The 20-40 minute play has emerged as a popular subgenre of the one-act play, especially in writi ...

in prose, mingled with couplets, with

Jean-Toussaint Merle Jean-Toussaint Merle (10 June 1785– 27 February 1852) was a French playwright and journalist. Biography Merle had a good education at the Central School of the department of Hérault before arriving in Paris in 1803. At first an employee at ...

, 1811 * ''Prologue d'Arlequin cendrillon'', 1811 * ''Les Sabines de Limoges, ou l'Enlèvement singulier'', vaudeville héroïque in 1 act, with Philibert Rozet and Henri Simon, 1811 * ''L'Enfant prodigue, ou le Panier percé'', folie in 1 act, mingled with couplets, 1811 * ''Les Hommes femmes'', folie in 1 act mingled with couplets, with de Chazet, 1811 * ''Irons-nous à Paris ? ou Revue de l'an 1810'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Merle, 1811 * ''Ode sur la naissance du roi de Rome'', 1811 * ''Saphirine, ou le Réveil magique'', mélo-féerie in 2 acts

extravaganza An extravaganza is a literary or musical work (often musical theatre) usually containing elements of Victorian burlesque, and pantomime, in a spectacular production and characterized by freedom of style and structure. The term is derived from th ...

, preceded by the Livre du destin,

prologue A prologue or prolog (from Ancient Greek πρόλογος ''prólogos'', from πρό ''pró'', "before" and λόγος ''lógos'', "speech") is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier st ...

, with Merle, 1811 * ''Une journée de garnison'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with Merle, 1812 * ''Paris volant, ou la Fabrique d'ailes'', folie-épisodique in 1 act in prose and vaudevilles, with Théaulon, 1812 * ''Crispin financier'', comedy in 1 act, with Merle, 1812 * ''La Chevalière d'Éon, ou les Parieurs anglais'', comedy in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudeville, with Commagny, 1812 * ''L'Anglais à Bagdad'', comédie-anecdote in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Charles-François-Jean-Baptiste Moreau de Commagny, 1812 * ''La Famille mélomane'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with de Chazet, 1812 * ''La Houillière de Beaujonc, ou les Mineurs ensevelis'', grand historical

tableau vivant A (; often shortened to ; ; ) is a static scene containing one or more actors or models. They are stationary and silent, usually in costume, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery, and may be theatrically illuminated. It thus combines ...

, 1812 * ''Jérusalem déshabillée'', parody in un act, in prose and vaudevilles by the opéra de Baour-Lormian, with Commagny and

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 ...

, 1812 * ''La Jeunesse de Henri IV ou La Chaumière béarnaise'', one-act comedy, mingled with couplets, with

Nicolas Brazier Nicolas Brazier (17 February 1783, Paris – 18 February 1838) was a French chansonnier and vaudevillist. Life Although his father was a boarding school master and the author of multiple school manuals, Brazier's education was however strongly ...

and Merle, 1814 * ''L'Habit de Catinat, ou La Journée de Marseille'', one-act comedy, mingled with couplets, with Merle, 1814 * ''La Batelière du Loiret'', one-act comedy, mingled with vaudevilles, with

René de Chazet René de Chazet, full name René André Polydore Balthazar Alissan de Chazet, (23 October 1774 – 23 August 1844) was a French playwright, poet and novelist. Short biography The son of an annuities controller, parent of Mackau, the ambassador ...

, 1815 * ''Malesherbes à St-Denis'', poème élégiaque, 1815 * ''La fille grenadier'', one-act comedy, with Merle, 1816 * ''Poèmes, poésies fugitives, romances, chansons'', 1817 * ''Soirées dramatiques de Jérôme le porteur d'eau'', 1817 * ''Épître au Roi'', 1818 * ''La Leçon d'amour, ou le Rival complaisant'', one-act comedy, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Merle, 1818 * ''La France délivrée'', ode, 1818 * ''La Maison de Pantin'', one-act comedy, mingled with couplets, with Merle, 1818 * ''Et nous aussi nous chantons les vêpres, ou Fanfan Laqueue aux ''Vêpres siciliennes'' by

Casimir Delavigne Jean-François Casimir Delavigne (; 4 April 179311 December 1843) was a French poet and dramatist. Life and career Delavigne was born at Le Havre, but was sent to Paris to be educated at the Lycée Napoleon. He read extensively. When, on 20 Ma ...

'', 1820 * ''Pierre, Paul et Jean'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Charles-Augustin Sewrin, 1821 * ''Monsieur Blaise, ou les Deux Châteaux'', two-act comedy, mingled with vaudevilles, with Sewrin, 1821 * ''La Peste de Barcelonne ou le Dévouement français'', poem, 1821 * ''La Morale du Vaudeville'', chansonnier à l'usage des enfants et jeunes gens des deux sexes, 1822 * ''Thompson et Garrick, ou l'Auteur et l'acteur'', comedy in 1 act and in verses, mingled with vaudevilles, with Jacquelin, 1822 * ''Ninette à la Cour'', play by Favart, revival with changes, with

Armand d'Artois Armand d'Artois (3 October 1788 – 28 March 1867) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist A libretto (From the Italian word , ) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque ...

, 1822 * ''Les mauvaises têtes'', one-act comedy, with Sewrin, 1823 * ''L'Écarté, ou Un lendemain de bal'', one-act comedy, mingled with vaudevilles, with de Chazet and

Jacques-André Jacquelin Jacques-André Jacquelin (18 March 1776 – 13 August 1827) was a French playwright, lyricist, chansonnier, goguettier and poet. Biography A chief clerk at the Ministry of War, he became inspector of secondary theaters of Paris. Jacquelin aut ...

, 1822 * ''Les Funérailles de Louis XVIII'', stances, 1824 * ''Le nouveau caveau pour 1825'' * ''Le Sacre de Charles X'', ode, 1825 * ''Les Bourbons et la France'', poems, odes, stances, epistles, etc., followed by the translation in verses of ''

The Rape of the Lock ''The Rape of the Lock'' is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope. One of the most commonly cited examples of high burlesque, it was first published anonymously in Lintot's ''Miscellaneous Poems and Translations'' (May 1712) ...

'', by

Alexander Pope Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 Old Style and New Style dates, O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early ...

, 1826 * ''Voltaire à Francfort'', anecdotical comedy in 1 act, with Brazier, 1831 * ''L'Enfance de Boïeldieu'',

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 ...

and anecdotical in 1 act, 1834 * ''Conquêtes de l'homme, le puits artésien de Grenelle'', poème lyrique, 1841 * ''Épître à Mlle Mars sur l'annonce de sa retraite'', 1841 * ''Chants et chansons populaires de la France'', with

Théophile Marion Dumersan Théophile Marion Dumersan (4 January 1780, Plou, Cher, Plou, Cher – 13 April 1849, Paris) was a French writer of plays, vaudevilles, poetry, novels, chanson collections, librettos, and novels, as well as a numismatist and curator attached to t ...

, Paul Lacroix and

Antoine Le Roux de Lincy Antoine Le Roux de Lincy (Paris, 22 August 1806 – Paris, 13 May 1869) was a 19th-century French librarian, Romance philologist and medievalist. After graduating from the École Nationale des Chartes (promotion 1831-1832), Le Roux was appointed ...

, 1843

Bibliography

Louis Gabriel Michaud Louis-Gabriel Michaud (; 19 January 1773, Castle Richemont – 8 March 1858) was a French writer, historian, printer, and bookseller. He was notable as the compiler of ''Biographie Universelle'' (1811–). Life He became a lieutenant on 15 Jul ...

, ''Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne'', 1860, (p. 512) *

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 ...

, ''Dictionnaire universel des littératures'', 1884 * Lieven d'Hulst, ''Cent ans de théorie française de la traduction'', 1990, (p. 187)

Honours

* Croix de la

Légion d'honneur 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 ...

(1827) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ourry, Maurice 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French poets 19th-century French journalists French male journalists 1776 births 1843 deaths 19th-century French male writers