Philippe François Pinel, known as Dumanoir (31 July 1806 – 16 November 1865) was a French playwright and librettist.
Dumanoir was born in Capesterre-Belle-Eau, Guadeloupe. He was the son of Mrs. Pinel-Dumanoir, whose family planted the palm trees lining the Allée Dumanoir in Guadeloupe. He left Guadeloupe in 1816. Dumanoir wrote in the theatrical genre of Comédie en vaudevilles. He was director of the Théâtre des Variétés from 1837 to 1839. In 1844, he wrote in collaboration with Adolphe d'Ennery, an eponymous drama about Don César de Bazan, one of the characters in Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo.
He died in Pau.
1842: Le Chevalier d'Éon, comedy in 3 acts, (with Jean-François Bayard), Théâtre des Variétés1839: Les Premières Armes de Richelieu (with Jean-François Bayard), Théâtre du Palais Royal1840: Indiana et Charlemagne (with Jean-François Bayard), Théâtre du Palais Royal1842: Ma maîtresse et ma femme, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, (with Adolphe d'Ennery), Théâtre des Variétés1843: Les Hures-Graves (with Clairville and Paul Siraudin), Théâtre du Palais Royal1844: Don César de Bazan (with Adolphe d'Ennery), Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin1845: Le Code des femmes, Théâtre du Palais Royal1846: Gentil-Bernard ou L'Art d'aimer (with Clairville), Théâtre des Variétés1849: Exposition des produits de la République, comédie en vaudevilles in 3 acts (with Eugène Labiche and Clairville), Théâtre du Palais Royal1853: La Case de l'oncle Tom, (with Adolphe d'Ennery), Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique1857: Les Bourgeois gentilshommes, comedy in 3 acts, in prose, Théâtre du Gymnase1862: Les Invalides du mariage, comedy in 3 acts (with Lafargue), Théâtre du GymnaseOpera and ballet
1840: La Perruche, opéra-comique in 1 act (with Louis Clapisson and Henri Dupin)1840: Grisélidis ballet by Adolphe Adam
