Pierre-François-Adolphe Carmouche (9 April 1797, Lyon

Lyon

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 - December 1868) was a French playwright

Playwright

A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

. He wrote more than 200 successful plays, comedies, vaudeville

Vaudeville

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s and texts for opéras comiques

Opéra comique

Opéra comique is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged out of the popular opéra comiques en vaudevilles of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent , which combined existing popular tunes with spoken sections...

, in collaboration with diverse collaborators - Brazier

Nicolas Brazier

Nicolas Brazier was a French chansonnier and Vaudeville playwright.-Life:Son of a boarding school master and author of school manuals, Brazier's education was however strongly neglected due to the French Revolution...

, Dumersan

Théophile Marion Dumersan

Théophile Marion Dumersan was a French writer of plays, vaudevilles, poetry, novels, chanson collections, librettos, and novels, as well as a numismatist and curator attached to the Cabinet des médailles et antiques of the Bibliothèque royale.-Life:The family's real surname was Marion but – to...

, Mélesville, de Courcy

Frédéric de Courcy

Frédéric de Courcy, born Frédéric Charlot de Courcy was a French man of letters.-Life:The son of Augustin Charlot de Courcy and Adélaïde Vallet, in 1826 he became sous-chef of La Poste's personnel department .He was the author of several vaudevilles, often in collaboration, including :*...

, etc.

In 1824 he married the actress Jenny Vertpré.

He also collected a rich library, bequeathed in part to marshal Canrobert.

Sources

• Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des littératures, Paris, Hachette, 1876, p. 381

External links

• Works by or about Pierre Carmouche at Internet Archive
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