Antoine Dorfeuille

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Antoine Dorfeuille
Born1 December 1754
Died4 May 1795(1795-05-04) (aged 40)
Occupation(s)Actor
Playwright

Philippe-Antoine Dorfeuille (1 December 1754 – murdered 4 May 1795) was an 18th-century French actor, playwright, great traveller and revolutionary.

Biography[edit]

Born in Étoges 1 December 1754,[1][2] Philippe-Antoine Dorfeuille became a comedian. At the end of the Ancien Régime, theater was divided between provincial theaters, boulevard theatres and large institutions to privileges (Opera de Paris, Comédie-française). Poorly recognized by the Parisian theater, Dorfeuille tried twice unsuccessfully to enter the Théâtre français, playing in boulevard venues (Variétés-Amusantes, Salle Favart), and led a career in the province.

In 1775, he was part of Prince Charles de Lorraine's troupe. In 1777, he was the first player in the company of Ghent, where he staged his own plays. In 1779 he gave Le Protecteur ridicule then revived L'Illustre voyageur in Maastricht. Then he became, in 1782, one of the actors of the Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand.[3]

Works[edit]

Theatre
  • La Lanterne magique patriotique: ou, Le Coup de grace de l'aristocratie, Imprimerie de Fiévée, 1791, 21 pages
Diary
  • Je suis le véritable Père Duchesne, foutre !, Commune-Affranchie, Bernard, #25-32, 20 Nivôse–2 Germinal An II [fr]
Speeches, reports
Report of his wife

Sources[edit]

  • Philippe Bourdin, « Révolution et engagement militant à l'aune des biographies », dans Siècles, Cahiers du centre d'histoire « Espaces et cultures », Clermont-Ferrand, Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal-Clermont-Ferrand II, #11 « Engagements politiques », premier semestre 2000, (p. 7–33)
  • Jérôme Croyet, Sous le bonnet rouge, thèse d'histoire, Université Lumière Lyon II, 2003. A.D. Ain Bib TU 392

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Revue critique d'histoire et de littérature, recueil mensuel, 1916, 2e série, vol. 81-82, (p. 101).
  2. ^ In Sézanne, also in the Marne department according to Jérôme Croyet, Albitte: le tigre de l'Ain, Musnier-Gilbert, 2004, 351 pages, (p. 313) ISBN 2910267288.
  3. ^ Philippe Bourdin, Des lieux, des mots, les Révolutionnaires: le Puy-de-Dôme entre 1789 et 1799 Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, 1995, 512 pages, p. 44-46 et 57, annexe de la note 132 ISBN 2877410692.

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