Maxime Boucheron, real name René Maximilien (9 March 1846 – 10 November 1896), was a French

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...

and

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Biography

An employee at the

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of Paris, he became an editor at ''

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'' where he was responsible for the theatre critics. His

comic opera Comic opera, sometimes known as light opera, is a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending and often including spoken dialogue. Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a n ...

s, vaudevilles, operettas and other works, written from the 1870s to the 1890s, were performed on the most significant Parisian stages of his time, including

Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques The Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques was a theatre in Paris in the 19th and 20th centuries. Opened first in 1832 in the site of the old Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique on the Boulevard du Temple, under Frédérick Lemaître it became a noted venue ...

Théâtre de la Renaissance The name Théâtre de la Renaissance has been used successively for three distinct Parisian theatre companies. The first two companies, which were short-lived enterprises in the 19th century, used the Salle Ventadour, now an office building on t ...

and

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. He is buried at the

Père Lachaise Cemetery Père Lachaise Cemetery (french: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise ; formerly , "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in Paris, France (). With more than 3.5 million visitors annually, it is the most visited necropolis in the world. Notable figures ...

(47th division).

Works

*1878: ''Le Droit du seigneur'',

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 3 acts, with Paul Burani *1879: ''Le Billet de logement'', opéra-comique in 3 acts, with Paul Burani *1880: ''Le Ménage Popincourt'',

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in 1 act, with Raymond *1880: ''Le Voyage en Amérique'', fantaisie, operetta in 4 acts, with Raymond *1882: ''Le Petit parisien'', opéra comique in 3 acts, with Burani *1883: ''L'Ami d'Oscar'', opéra comique in 1 act *1883: ''Le Bouquet de violettes'', opéra comique in 1 act, with

Georges Grisier Auguste Marc Alphonse Georges Grisier (2 February 1853 – 5 June 1909) was a French playwright and journalist. He collaborated to numerous newspapers such as ''Le Figaro'', ''Paris-Journal'', ''Le Peuple français'', '' La Patrie'', '' La Franc ...

*1887: ''Chanson du Point du jour'', lyrics by Boucheron and Grisier, music by

André Martinet André Martinet (; Saint-Alban-des-Villards, 12 April 1908 – Châtenay-Malabry, 16 July 1999) was a French linguist, influential due to his work on structural linguistics. Life and work Martinet passed his ''agrégation'' in English and re ...

*1888: ''Cocard et Bicoquet'', comedy-vaudeville in 3 acts, with Hippolyte Raymond *1888: ''La divine comédie... française'' *1888: ''La Légende du magyar'', opéra comique in 3 acts *1888: ''Mimi'', vaudeville en 3 actes, with Raymond *1890: ''La D'moiselle, du téléphone'', lyrics by Maxime Boucheron, music by André Martinet *1890: ''Le Roi des bonneteurs'', Marpon et Flammarion *1890: '' Miss Helyett'', opérette in 3 acts, 1891, music by

Edmond Audran Achille Edmond Audran (12 April 184017 August 1901) was a French composer best known for several internationally successful comic operas and operettas. After beginning his career in Marseille as an organist, Audran composed religious music an ...

*1891: ''Le Mitron'', vaudeville-operetta in 3 acts, with Mars *1891: ''Maldonne'', comédie-bouffe in 1 act *1892: ''Sainte Freya'', opéra comique in 3 acts, music by Audran *1892: ''Article de Paris'', operetta in 3 actes, music by Audran *1894: ''Les Forains'', operetta in 3 acts, with

Antony Mars Antony Mars (22 October 1861 – 17 February 1915) was a French playwright Biography After he studied at a high school in Marseille, Antony March became a lawyer's clerk then an employee at the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est. En 1882, he ...

, music by

Louis Varney Louis Varney (; 30 May 1844, New Orleans, Louisiana – 20 August 1908, Cauterets, France) was a French composer. Biography Louis Varney was the son of Alphonse Varney, a French conductor at the Bouffes-Parisiens and at the Grand Thé� ...

*1895: ''La Duchesse de Ferrare'', opéretta in 3 actes, music by Audran *1895: ''Le Pèlerinage'', comedy in 4 acts, with

Maurice Ordonneau Maurice Ordonneau (18 June 1854 – 14 November 1916) was a French dramatist and composer. The son of a merchant of eau de vie, Ordonneau was a prolific author in creating theatrical works. He composed, often with the collaboration of other play ...

*1896: ''Tante Agnès'', operetta bouffa in 2 acts

Bibliography

* Henry A. Parys, ''Histoire anecdotique de l'opérette'', 1945, (p. 147) * Manuel Gómez García, ''Diccionario Akal de Teatro'', 1998, (p. 112) * Kurt Gänzl, ''The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre: A-Gi'', 2001, (p. 223)

Sources

Jules Moiroux, ''Le cimetière du Père Lachaise'', Paris, S. Mercadier, 190
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19th-century French dramatists and playwrights French chansonniers Writers from Paris 1846 births 1896 deaths Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery {{France-playwright-stub