Henri Philibert Joseph Delmotte (14 March 1822 – 10 July 1884) was a Belgian stage poet and novelist. Delmotte was born in Baudour

Baudour

Baudour is a village near the Belgian towns of Saint-Ghislain and Mons in the province of Hainaut.*Henri Delmotte was born in Baudour...

, Hainaut and studied jurisprudence and then worked for the government for a time, becoming a commissioner in Nivelles

Nivelles

Nivelles is a Walloon city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. The Nivelles municipality includes the old communes of Baulers, Bornival, Thines, and Monstreux....

. However, he soon left public life and moved to Brussels. He was working in establishing a French-speaking national theatre in Belgium and from 1879 to 1880 wrote handbills and highly polemic newspaper articles. Beside numerous magazine articles, Delmotte also published books and comedies, in which he describes the contemporary Belgian middle classes. Delmotte died at Brussels

Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...

 in 1884.

Works

• Monsieur Du Bois, ou Nouvelle noblesse, 3 act prose comedy by M. Henri Delmotte. (Brussels, Théâtre royal du Parc
  Théâtre Royal du Parc
  The Théâtre Royal du Parc is a theatre at 3, Rue de la Loi in Brussels, on the edge of the Parc de Bruxelles facing the Federal Parliament...
  
  , 15 March 1845 ; and La Monnaie
  La Monnaie
  Le Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie , or the Koninklijke Muntschouwburg is a theatre in Brussels, Belgium....
  
  , 18 March 1845.).
• Comédies M. Du Bois ou la nouvelle Noblesse. Le Début. Comment on dovint Conseiller. Le Lanceur d'Affaires. Paris: Sandoz & Fischbacher, 1873.