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Marie Joseph Pain (4 August 1773, Paris – March 1830, ibid.) was a 19th-century French playwright, poet and essayist.

Biography

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A member of the Société du Caveau [fr], censor and office manager at the Prefecture of the Seine under the Bourbon Restoration, chief editor of the magazine Le Drapeau blanc [fr], he is known as one of the pioneers of vaudevillism.[1] His plays, some of which achieved a major success,[2] were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre du Vaudeville, the Théâtre du Gymnase-Dramatique, and the Théâtre des Variétés.

Works

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Elise Lindström in a Swedish adaptation of Fanchon the hurdy-gurdy girl

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  • 1792: Saint-Far, ou la Délicatesse de l'amour, comedy in 1 act, in verse
  • 1794: Les Chouans, ou La Républicaine de Malestroit, with François Marie Joseph Riou de Kersalaün
  • 1794: Le Naufrage au port, comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles
  • 1798: Le Roi de pique, comedy in 1 act and in verse
  • 1798: L'Appartement à louer, comedy épisodique mingled with vaudevilles
  • 1799: Le Connaisseur, comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles
  • 1799: La Marchande de plaisir, vaudeville in 1 act
  • 1800: Florian, comedy in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Jean-Nicolas Bouilly
  • 1800: Téniers, comedy in 1 act and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Bouilly
  • 1801: Allez voir Dominique, comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles
  • 1802: Berquin, ou l'Ami des enfans, comedy in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Bouilly
  • 1802: Le Méléagre champenois, ou la Chasse interrompue, folie-vaudeville in 1 act
  • 1802: Le Procès, ou la Bibliothèque de Patru, comedy in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles
  • 1803: Fanchon la vielleuse, comedy in 3 acts, mingled with vaudeville, with Bouilly
  • 1804: Théophile, ou les Deux poètes, comedy in 1 act and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Théophile Marion Dumersan
  • 1805: La Belle Marie, comédie-anecdote in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Dumersan
  • 1805: Le Portrait du duc, comedy in 3 acts and in prose, with Ludwig Benedict Franz von Bilderbeck
  • 1806: Brutal, ou Il vaut mieux tard que jamais, vaudeville in 1 act and in prose, parodie of Uthal, with Pierre-Ange Vieillard
  • 1806: Point d'adversaire, opéra comique in 1 act
  • 1807: Amour et mystère, ou Lequel est mon cousin ?, comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles
  • 1807: Laurette, opera in 1 act, music by Stanislas Champein
  • 1808: La Chaumière moscovite, vaudeville anecdote in 1 act, with Dumersan
  • 1808: Rien de trop, comedy in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles
  • 1809: Benoît ou Le pauvre de Notre Dame, comédie-anecdote in 2 acts and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Dumersan
  • 1809: Le Roi et le pèlerin, comedy in 2 acts and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Dumersan
  • 1809: Le Manuscrit déchiré, bagatelle (trifle) in 1 act, in prose
  • 1810: Le Père d'occasion, comedy in 1 act, with Vieillard
  • 1810: La Vieillesse de Piron, comedy in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Bouilly
  • 1810: L'Homme de quarante ans, ou Le Rôle de comédie, comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles
  • 1810: Encore une partie de chasse, ou le Tableau d'histoire, comédie-anecdote in 1 act, in verse, with Dumersan
  • 1810: Deux pour un, comedy in 1 act mingled with vaudevilles, with Henri Dupin
  • 1810: Rien de trop ou Les Deux paravents, opéra comique in 1 act, music by François-Adrien Boïeldieu
  • 1811: Le Dîner d'emprunt, ou Les lettres de Carnaval, vaudeville in 1 act, with Dupin
  • 1812: Les Mines de Beaujonc, ou Ils sont sauvés, fait historique in 3 acts, mingled with couplets, with Dumersan
  • 1813: Les Rêveurs éveillés, parade magnétique in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Vieillard
  • 1816: Le Revenant, ou l'Héritage, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, in prose, with Dupin
  • 1818: La Statue de Henri IV, ou la Fête du Pont-Neuf, tableau grivois in 1 act, with René de Chazet, Marc-Antoine Désaugiers and Michel-Joseph Gentil de Chavagnac
  • 1819: Voyage au hasard
  • 1820: Poésies de M. Joseph Pain
  • 1823: Jenny la Bouquetière, opéra comique, with Bouilly
  • 1826: Le Bonhomme, comedy in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with Pierre Carmouche and Antoine Simonnin
  • 1828: Nouveaux tableaux de Paris, ou Observations sur les mœurs et usages des Parisiens au commencement du XIXe siècle, 2 vols
  • 1844: Adieux à l'Aveyron, in Poésies aveyronnaises by Adrien de Séguret

Bibliography

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  • Joseph-Marie Quérard, La France littéraire ou Dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, 1834, p. 556-557
  • Marie-Nicolas Bouillet, Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de géographie, vol.2, 1867, p. 1410
  • Charles Dezobry, Théodore Bachelet, Dictionnaire général de biographie et d'histoire, vol.2, 1873, p. 2000
  • John Oxenford, The Book of French Songs, 1877, p. 222
  • Henry Gidel, Le vaudeville, 1986, p. 54

References

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  1. ^ Théophile Gautier, Alain Montandon, Claudine Lacoste-Veysseyre, La croix de Berny, Les Roues innocents, Militona, Honoré Champion, 2003, p. 528
  2. ^ Marie Nicolas Bouillet, Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de géographie, vol.2, 1867, p. 1410
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