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Étienne Crétu

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Étienne Crétu was an 18th-19th-century French playwright.

The son of Anthelme Crétu, managing director of the Théâtre des Variétés who associated him to the direction, his plays were presented in this theatre from 1801 to 1828.

Works

  • 1785: Les Deux gendres, comedy in five acts and in verse
  • 1799: Pygmalion à Saint-Maur, farce-anecdotique in one actand vaudevilles, with François Bernard-Valville and Étienne Gosse
  • 1801: Quel est le plus ridicule ? ou La Gravure en action, folie-vaudeville en 1 acte, avec Gosse and Morel
  • 1826: Le Chiffonnier, ou le Philosophe nocturne, comédie-vaudeville in five acts and in one day, with Emmanuel Théaulon
  • 1826: Paris et Bruxelles, ou le Chemin à la mode, two-act comédie-vaudeville, with Jean-Baptiste Gondelier and Théaulon
  • 1826: Le Soufflet conjugal, one-act comédie-vaudeville, with Théaulon
  • 1827: Les Compagnons du devoir, ou le Tour de France, one-act tableau-vaudeville, with W. Lafontaine
  • 1827: Le Bénéficiaire, comedy in five acts and one vaudeville, with Théaulon
  • 1827: Jean de Calais, comedy in two acts, mingled with couplets, with Gabriel de Lurieu and Louis-Émile Vanderburch
  • 1828: L'Oncle en tutelle, one-act comédie-vaudeville, with Vanderburch

    • References

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