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French playwright
Émile Moreau
Born Marie-Jules-Émile Moreau
8 December 1852Died 27 December 1922(1922-12-27) (aged 70)Brienon-sur-Armançon
Occupation(s) playwright, librettist
Marie-Jules-Émile Moreau (8 December 1852 – 27 December 1922),
[1] better known as Émile Moreau , was a 19th-century French
playwright and
librettist .
Biography
Aged 17 he volunteered for the
Franco-Prussian War in 1870 and participated to the
Côte-d'Or and
Armée de l'Est campaigns with
general Bourbaki .
[2]
In 1887 he was awarded a poetry prize by the
Académie française for Pallas Athénée .
[3]
The composer
Paul Vidal won the first
prix de Rome in 1883 with his
cantata Le Gladiateur on a libretto by Moreau, and
Auguste Chapuis the
prix Rossini in 1886 with Les Jardins d'Armide .
He has sometimes been confused with
Émile Moreau ,
[4] the French businessman who was one of the co-founders of the Indian bookstore chain
A. H. Wheeler & Co.
Theatre
1877: Parthénice , à-propos in 1 act and in verse,
Comédie-Française
1883: Corneille et Richelieu , à-propos in 1 act and in verse, Comédie-Française
1885: Matapan , comedy in 3 acts and in verse
1887: Protestation , à-propos in verse, Comédie-Française
1890: Le Drapeau , drama in 5 acts with Ernest Depré,
Théâtre du Vaudeville
1890: Cléopâtre with
Victorien Sardou ,
[5] music by
Xavier Leroux ,
Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin
1891: L'Auberge des mariniers , drama in 5 acts,
Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique
1893:
Madame Sans-Gêne , comedy in 3 acts and a
prologue with Victorien Sardou, Théâtre du Vaudeville
1895: Le Capitaine Floréal , drama in 5 acts with Ernest Depré, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique
1897: La Montagne enchantée , pièce fantastique in 5 acts and 12 tableaux with
Albert Carré , music by
André Messager and Xavier Leroux, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin
1899: Madame de Lavalette , drama, Théâtre du Vaudeville
1901: Quo vadis ? , historical drama in 5 acts and 10 tableaux with
Louis Péricaud after the
eponymous novel by
Henryk Sienkiewicz , music by
Francis Thomé , Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin
1909: Le Procès de Jeanne d'Arc , historical drama in 4 acts,
Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt
1909: Madame Margot with Charles Clairville,
Théâtre Réjane
1912: La Reine Élisabeth , play in 4 acts, Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt
1920: Le Courrier de Lyon , drama in 5 acts and 6 tableaux with
Paul Siraudin and
Alfred Delacour , Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin
Bibliography
Manfred Le Gant de Conradin , Didot, 1886
Le Secret de Saint Louis , Delagrave
References
External links
International National Artists Other