Michel-Nicolas Balisson, baron de Rougemont (27 February 1781 - 16 July 1840), was a French journalist, novelist and
dramatist
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reading. Ben Jonson coined the term "playwri ...
.
Biography
His family comes from
Sourdeval
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. He invented the ''mot de
Cambronne''.
[Jacques Logie, Waterloo: l'évitable défaite, Duculot, 1984, p. 144]
Theatre
Rougemont has authored numerous plays, alone or in collaboration. the most importants are :
*''Chantons et facéties'' ;
*''L’lngénue de Brive-la-Gaillarde'' ;
*''Mademoiselle Musard'' ;
* 1803 : ''L’Amour à l’anglaise'' ;
* 1806 : ''Le Mari supposé'' ;
* 1808 : ''Monsieur et Madame Denis'' ;
* 1810 : ''Sophie, ou la Nouvelle Cendrillon'' ;
* 1811 : ''La Femme innocente, malheureuse et persécutée'' ;
* 1811 : ''La Rosière de Verneuil'' ;
* 1812 : ''La Matrimonio-manie'' ;
* 1821 : ''Le Rôdeur français'' ;
* 1820 : ''Le Mariage du ci-devant jeune homme'' ;
* 1821 : ''Les Ermites'' comédie-vaudeville in 1 act by
Edmond Crosnier,
Aimé Desprez
Claude-Aimé Desprez-Saint-Clair (5 April 1783 – 26 April 1824) was a French vaudeville playwright and chansonnier. He himself performed comedy plays and, around 1810, joined the troupe of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique under the name Saint ...
and Michel-Nicolas Balisson de Rougemont,
théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin
* 1826 : ''Pamela, ou la Fille du portier'' ;
* 1827 : ''La Laitière de Montfermeil'' ;
* 1829 : ''Le Voile bleu''.
* 1831 : ''La Fille unique'' ;
* 1832 : ''Jeanne Vaubernier, ou la Cour de Louis XV'' ;
* 1834 : ''Salvoisy, ou l’Amoureux de la reine'' ;
* 1835 : ''Madelon Friquet'' ;
* 1835 : ''La Croix d'or'' by
Charles Dupeuty and Michel-Nicolas Balisson de Rougemont,
Théâtre du Palais Royal
* 1836 : ''Léon'', drama in 5 acts, théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 1 December
* 1837 : ''Les Amants valets'' ;
* 1838 : ''La Reine des blanchisseuses'' ;
* 1839 : ''La Belle Bourbonnaise'' ;
Sources
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Antoine Alexandre Barbier
Antoine Alexandre Barbier (11 January 1765 – 5 December 1825) was a French librarian and bibliographer.
He was born in Coulommiers ( Seine-et-Marne). He took priest's orders, from which, however, he was finally released by the pope in 1801 ...
,
Joseph Marie Quérard, ''Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes'', Paris, Féchoz et Letouzey, 1882, (p. 438).
References
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
19th-century French journalists
French male journalists
People from La Rochelle
1781 births
1840 deaths
19th-century French male writers
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