Alexandre Barrière
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| Born | Daniel Alexis François Barrière 22 October 1792 Paris, France |
| Died | 30 August 1865[1] |
| Nationality | French |
Daniel Alexis François Barrière, also called Barrière aîné, (22 October 1792 – 30 August 1865) was a 19th-century French playwright, engraver and song writer.
Biography
[edit]An engraver, trained by his father, he drew a part of the campaign plans for the marshal Laurent de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr as well as maps of Swabia, Russia, Corsica or Spain and of the county Mayo. [2] He also made prints for the library.
His plays were presented on the most famous Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre des Variétés, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, etc.
His songs were published in 1829 in the book Étrennes lyriques ou Recueil de romances et nocturnes, with piano or harpes accompagnements by Antoine Romagnesi.
Plays and songs
[edit]- 1813: Le Mari en vacances, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Marc-Antoine Désaugiers
- 1816: Trois pour une ou les absents n'ont pas toujours tort, comédie-vaudeville en 1 act, with Désaugiers
- 1817: La Vendange normande, ou les Deux voisins, vaudeville in 1 act, with Michel-Joseph Gentil de Chavagnac
- 1830: Notre Grand'mère, chansonnette
- 1835: Mon bonnet de nuit, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Georges Duval
- 1835: Oui et non, comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts
- 1837: Les savetiers francs-juges, chronique messinaise in 3 acts, mingled with songs
- 1840: Les Pages de Louis XII, comedy mingled with song, in 2 acts, with Ferdinand de Villeneuve
- 1842: Le poète, ou Les droits de l'auteur, comedy in 1 act and in verses
- 1848: L'Autel de la Patrie, hymne national, music by Félix Marie
- 1857: Le legs (The Legacy), comedy by Marivaux set in verses
- 1861: La Sainte-Catherine, ou Un bienfait n'est jamais perdu, à-propos-vaudeville in 1 act
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Joseph-marie Quérard, La littérature française contemporaine, vol.3, 1827-1844, p. 164
- Charles Gabet, Dictionnaire des artistes de l'école française au XIXe, 1831, p. 29
- Edwin Colby Byam, Théodore Barrière, dramatist of the second empire, 1938, p. 14
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