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Occupation
  
Playwright Poet

Died
  
5 October 1841

Born
  
10 December 1755
Apt

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Joseph Aude (10 December 1755 – 5 October 1841) was a familiar of Necker and Buffon whose biography he wrote as well as a comédie en vaudeville about his marriage, presented at the Société littéraire et scientifique d'Apt. Aude Joseph is considered an important author of the traveling theater of the early nineteenth, thanks to his Cadet Rousselle.

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Biography

He made his literary debut in 1776, with Fête des Muses, an à-propos in verse played at the Théâtre de Versailles before the king and the court. He met Buffon at the Jardin du Roi, where chevalier de Mouchy, of the House of Noailles, a novelist and correspondent of Voltaire, had led him. Having become familiar with him in Paris, he was his guest at Montbard, but was not, contrary to popular belief, his personal secretary.

He stroke a friendship with the marquis Domenico Caracciolo, ambassador of the Kingdom of Naples in France. In 1781, he was appointed viceroy of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and took Aude with him. After he was appointed foreign minister in Naples, 1786, Aude returned to France and joined Buffon in Montbard.

Chevalier Aude was honored with a letter from Frederick the Great. He was tied with Dorvigny, creator of the character Jocrisse, and with Brunet, his favorite actor and had the honor of being played by Talma in 1790.

He was said to be a dissipator, prodigal and drunkard because at the end of his life, he assiduously attended cabarets.

The Cadet Roussel series

  • Cadet-Roussel, barbier à la Fontaine des Innocents : Folie en 1 acte
  • Cadet-Roussel, ou le Café des aveugles : pièce en 2 actes qui n'en font qu'un, en vers et en prose. The play premiered at the Théâtre de la Cité on 12 February 1793.
  • L'École tragique, ou Cadet-Roussel maître de déclamation : comédie ou non, en 1 acte (in another version: Cadet-Roussel, professeur ... )
  • Cadet-Roussel au jardin turc : facétie en 1 acte
  • Cadet-Roussel aux Champs-Élysées, ou la Colère d'Agamemnon : vaudeville en 1 acte
  • He is however not the only author to have used "Cadet Roussel" as a character. Indeed, the CESAR database reports many Cadet Roussel, from the Cadet Roussel garçon d'auberge, by Prévost (Théâtre des Associés, 1784) to the École tragique ou Cadet Roussel maître de déclamation, by Aude (Théâtre de Montansier, August 1799) for the XVIIIth, then others during the XIXth century such as Victor Hugo who, in his Ninety-Three, featured Danton ridiculing Robespierre who had just monopolized the floor for two hours at the National Convention:

    Cadet Rousselle fait des discours (Cadet Roussel delivers speechs) Qui ne sont pas longs quand ils sont courts. (which are not long when they are shorts)

    References

    Joseph Aude Wikipedia