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Étienne Jourdan

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Étienne Jourdan (? – Paris, 9 March 1847), was a 19th-century French playwright, engraver and chansonnier.

An engraver, member of the caveau moderne [fr], he wrote some theatre plays given at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, the Théâtre du Vaudeville and the Théâtre de la Gaîté as well as a collection of songs of which the best known is La Goguette. Some of his couplets, published in the Paris press, were famous political diatribes.[1]

Works

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  • 1813: Le Boghey renversé, ou Un point de vue de Longchamp, croquis en vaudevilles, with Emmanuel Théaulon and Armand d'Artois
  • 1814: La cocarde blanche, one-act comedy in prose
  • 1834: Artiste et artisan, ou les Deux expositions, one-act comédie-vaudeville, with Ferdinand de Laboullaye
  • 1836: Le Barde, collection of songs
  • 1836: L'Ouverture sans prologue, prologue d'ouverture in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with de Laboullaye

References

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  1. ^ Dictionnaire des Protées modernes, 1815, (p. 147)

Bibliography

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