Antonin d'Avrecourt

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Antonin d'Avrecourt was a French playwright of the XIXth century, mostly known for his comedies and vaudevilles. The dramatist Ernest-Georges Petitjean was his brother.

His plays, signed under several pseudonymes, were performed on the most imprtant Parisian stages of his time: Théâtre des Variétés, Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre de la Renaissance etc.

Works

1831: Fifi Lecoq, ou Une visite domiciliaire, anecdote contemporaine, mêlée de couplets, with Philippe-Amédée Roustan

1831: La Future de province, ou les Informations, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Dumanoir

1833: Poète et maçon, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Adolphe de Leuven and Eugène Roche

1836: Madame Peterhoff, vaudeville anecdote in 1 act, with Charles de Livry

1836: Une spéculation, vaudeville in 1 act, with Dumanoir and E. Roche

1837: Absent et présent, comedy in 1 act, mixed with distincts

1837: L’Épée de mon père, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Charles Desnoyer

1838: Les parens de la fille, comedy in 1 act and in prose, with Félix Arvers and Ernest-Georges Petitjean

1841: Les Vieilles amours, vaudeville in 1 act, with F. Arvers and Petitjean

1842: Les Ressources de Jonathas, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Charles Varin

1848: La Fiancée du prince, comedie en vaudevilles in 3 acts, with Arsène de Cey and Petitjean

1849: Lord Spleen, with Arvers and Petitjean

1850: Le Banquet de camarades, with Arvers and Petitjean

1854: Monsieur de La Palisse, vaudeville in 1 act, with Pierre Carmouche, Eugène Nyon and Petitjean

1857: Le Pot de fer et le pot de terre, vaudeville in 1 act, with Alfred Desroziers and Petitjean

1858: Le Chapitre de la toilette, comedy in 1 act, with Édouard Lafargue and Petitjean

1862: Le Domestique de ma femme, comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Lafargue and Petitjean

References

Antonin d'Avrecourt Wikipedia

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