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Hippolyte Hostein

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Born
  
14 October 1814
Paris

Occupation
  
playwright, theatre director and theatre manager

Died
  
8 September 1879, Paris, France

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Hippolyte Hostein (14 September 1814 – 8 September 1879) was a French playwright, theatre director and theatre manager.

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Biography

He successively directed the Théâtre Historique (1847-1850), the Théâtre de la Gaité (1849-1858), the Cirque-Olympique (1858-1862), the Théâtre du Châtelet (1862-1864/1865-1869), the Théâtre du Château-d'eau (1868-1869), the Théâtre de la Renaissance (1873-1875) and the Théâtre de l'Ambigu (1875). He also published cronicles in Le Figaro and Le Constitutionnel

Works

Theatre
  • Le Miracle des roses, drama in sixteen tableaux, with Antony Béraud, 1844
  • Les Sept Ans de S. A. Mgr le Prince impérial, cantata on a music by Adolphe de Groot, premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet 16 March 1863
  • L'Affaire Lerouge, drama in five acts and eight tableaux after Émile Gaboriau, premiered at the Théâtre du Château-d'eau 2 May 1872
  • Texts
  • 1843: Les Contes bleus de ma nourrice, A. Desesserts, Paris
  • 1848: Réforme théâtrale suivie d'Esquisse d'un projet de loi sur les théâtres, A. Desesserts
  • 1867: La Liberté des théâtres, Librairie des auteurs, Paris
  • 1878: Historiettes et souvenirs d'un homme de théâtre, E. Dentu, Paris
  • References

    Hippolyte Hostein Wikipedia