Alfred Delacour
Alfred Delacour | |
|---|---|
| Born | Pierre-Alfred Lartigue 3 September 1817 |
| Died | 31 March 1883 (aged 65) |
| Occupation(s) | Playwright and librettist. |
Alfred Delacour or Alfred-Charlemagne Delacour, real name Pierre-Alfred Lartigue, (3 September 1817 [1] – 31 March 1883 [2]) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist.
Biography
In addition to his occupation as a physician that he practised from 1841,[3] Delacour turned progressively to the theatre.[4] He would collaborate with Eugène Labiche and Clairville for several vaudevilles [5]
Titles and decorations
- Knight of the Legion of honour (7 August 1867 decree) His entry on the Base Léonore wrongly calls him Alfred-Charlemagne which was his pen name.
Plays
- 1847: L'Hospitalité d'une grisette by Mathieu Barthélemy Thouin and Delacour
- 1849: E. H. by Eugène Moreau, Paul Siraudin and Delacour [6][7]
- 1850: Le Courrier de Lyon by Eugène Moreau, Paul Siraudin and Delacour, Théâtre de la Gaîté
- 1851: La fille qui trompe son mari by Eugène Moreau and Delacour
- 1852: Paris qui dort by Lambert-Thiboust and Delacour, Théâtre des Variétés
- 1855: Un bal d'auvergnats by Paul Siraudin, Delacour and Lambert-Thiboust, Théâtre du Palais-Royal
- 1856: La Queue de la poële by Paul Siraudin and Delacour, Théâtre du Palais-Royal
- 1858: Deux merles blancs by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre des Variétés
- 1859: Un mari à la porte by Delacour and Léon Morand, opérette in one act with music by Offenbach; Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Lacaze
- 1861: Les Voisins de Molinchart by Marc-Michel and Delacour
- 1862: Les Petits Oiseaux by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre du Vaudeville
- 1864: La Cagnotte by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre du Palais-Royal
- 1864: Le Point de mire by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre de la Cour
- 1864: Les Femmes sérieuses by Paul Siraudin, Alfred and Ernest Blum, Théâtre du Palais-Royal
- 1865: L'Homme qui manque le coche by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre des Variétés
- 1875: Le Procès Veauradieux by Alfred Hennequin and Delacour.
- 1876: Le roi dort by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre des Variétés
- 1876: Les Dominos roses by Alfred Hennequin and Delacour, Théâtre du Vaudeville
Adaptations for television
- 1964: Célimare le bien-aimé, by Delacour and Eugène Labiche (1863), television film by René Lucot
- 2009: La Cagnotte, by Delacour and Eugène Labiche (1864), television film by Philippe Monnier.
Bibliography
- Hippolyte Minier, Le théâtre à Bordeaux, étude historique suivi de la nomenclature des auteurs dramatiques bordelais et de leurs ouvrages, établie en collaboration avec Jules Delpit, Bordeaux, 1883, (p. 53)
References
- ^ and not in 1815 Alfred Delacour (1815-1883): individual pseudonyme
- ^ Ville de Paris, état-civil du 9th arrondissement, registre des décès de 1883, acte n° 517.
- ^ Louis Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, contenant toutes les personnes notables de la France et des pays étrangers… : Supplement to the IVth edition by Léon Garnier, Hachette, 1865, (p. 490).
- ^ François Cavaignac, La culture théâtrale à Étampes au XIXth, éditions L'Harmattan, 2007, (p. 60).
- ^ Jeanne Benay, L'opérette viennoise, Austriaca, n° 46, Publication Univ. Rouen Havre, 1998, (p. 159).
- ^ Bibliographic information
- ^ This comédie en vaudevilles in one act has been translated into the Russian language by Pavel Feodorov (ru: Павел Степанович Фёдоров) in 1849 under the title Az et Fert (Аз и ферт) which was often performed and then adapted three times for film in the Russian language in 1946, 1981 and 2000.
