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French writer, poet, political journalist and playwright (1792–1856)
Mathurin-Joseph Brisset
Born 22 November 1792 Died 7 June 1856(1856-06-07) (aged 63) Occupation(s) Writer, poet, political journalist, playwright
Mathurin-Joseph Brisset (22 November 1792 – 7 June 1856) was a French writer, poet, political journalist and
playwright of the first half of the 19th century.
Biography
A bodyguard attached to the company of
Havré , then an infantry officer during the reigns of
Louis XVIII and
Charles X , he took part to the
Spanish campaign (1823) where he was awarded the cross of first class knight of the
Order of Saint Ferdinand . He left the army after the
July Revolution of 1830 and landed as political critic by the
Gazette de France . He also held there theatrical criticism and devoted himself entirely to writing. Thus, he published a considerable number of historical novels and his plays were presented on the most famous Parisian stages of his time:
Théâtre des Nouveautés ,
Théâtre du Vaudeville ,
Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin ,
Gymnase dramatique etc.
Works
1816: Les Dames du Lis , poem
1818: La Statue de Henri IV , ode
1818: La Salle des Maréchaux
1820: La Messe de délivrance
1820: Ernest
1821: Le Traité de paix , comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with
Achille d'Artois
1822: Le Départ d'une diligence , tableau épisodique in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with
Edmond Rochefort
1822: Honneur et séduction ,
melodrama in 3 acts, with
Louis-Charles Caigniez
1822: Le Zodiaque de Paris, à propos du Zodiaque de Denderah , vaudeville-épisodique in 1 act, with
Ferdinand Langlé
1823: Le Magasin de lumière , scènes à-propos de l'éclairage par le gaz, with Ferdinand Langlé,
Ramond de la Croisette and
Emmanuel Théaulon
1824: Le Retour à la ferme , comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Achille d'Artois
1825: Madrid, ou observations sur des mœurs et usages des Espagnols au commencement du XIXe siècle , with
Théodore Anne
1825: Les Singes, ou la Parade dans le salon , vaudeville in 1 act, with
Espérance Hippolyte Lassagne and Edmond Rochefort
1826: La pêche de Vulcain, ou L'île des fleuves , vaudeville, with Espérance Hippolyte Lassagne and Edmond Rochefort
1827: Le coureur de veuves , comedy in 2 acts
1827: Les Dernières amours , tableau-vaudeville in 1 act
1827: Les Rendez-vous , comédie-vaudeville
1827: Paris et Londres , Comedy in 4
tableaux , with Armand d'Artois
1828: Le Peintre et le courtisan , anecdotical comédie-vaudeville en 1 act
1828: L'Anneau de la fiancée , lyrical drama in 3 acts, with
Felice Blangini
1829: Angiolina ou la Femme du doge , drama in 3 acts
1829: Les Deux Raymond, ou les Nouveaux Ménechmes , 6-chapter novel, with
Victor Ducange
1835: Le Mauvais œil, tradition dalmate, suivi d'une nouvelle française
1837: Les Templiers, 1313
1838: Le Génie d'une femme
1840: François de Guise, 1563
1841: Le Balafré, 1572-1587
1843: Le cabinet de lecture
1844: Le Béarnais
1844: La Femme d'un ministre, Mme Roland. 1793
1845 Le Petit roi
1846: Madame Jean , 1846
1847: Les Concini, 1616-1617
1849: La Maréchale de Saint-André
1854: Jacquot
1854: M. de Beauregard
1854: La Maréchale de Saint-André
1859: Hugues-le-Cadavre, mystère du XIe siècle
Bibliography
Pierre Larousse , Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle , 1865, p. 1287
Thomas Rossman Palfrey, L'Europe littéraire: (1833-1834) , 1927, p. 147
Charles Maillier, Trois journalistes drouais: Brisset, Dujarier, Buré , 1968, p. 19
Robert Sabatier , Histoire de la poésie française: La poésie du XIXe siècle , 1975, p. 327
Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Greco Josefowicz, The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy Over an Ancient Egyptian , 2010, p. 254
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