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Full Name Amédée-Jean-Baptiste de Font-Reaulx de Jallais Born 17 December 1826 Saint-Germain-en-Laye Died 31 January 1909, Paris, France People also search for Jules Renard, Xavier Eyma, Charles Potier, Audeval | ||
Amédée de Jallais (17 December 1826 – 31 January 1909) was an 19th-century French playwright, operetta librettist and chansonnier.
Biography
The son of a lieutenant colonel in the guards, he studied at the College Bourbon then entered in the insurance company La Nationale (1845–1850) as employee, a position he will leave to devote himself entirely to literature after the success of his comedy Un de perdu, une de retrouvée.
Collaborator of the Gazette des théâtres, then of the Messager des théâtres, he became managing director of the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques (1871) then after the blaze of this theatre on 22 May 1871, of the Théâtre des Menus-Plaisirs. Administrator dof the Théâtre Déjazet (1874–1875), general secretary of the Théâtre de la République (1897), he married the actress Eudoxie Laurent in 1862.
He wrote more than two hundred plays which were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the XIXth century: Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques etc.