Died 1826, Charenton-le-Pont, France | ||
Léonard Décade Tousez (Paris 1788 – Charenton 1826) was a French actor and playwright of the XIXth century.
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An actor at the Théâtre des Variétés (1816-1826), he played the handsome young men in Les Bolivars et les Morillos ou Les amours de Belleville (1819) by Armand d'Artois and Gabriel de Lurieu as well as, inter alia, in Le témoin ou La Porte-Maillot (1820) by Eugène Scribe, Mélesville and Xavier Boniface.
In 1818, he married Charlotte Zoë Régnier de la Brière, an actress and François-Joseph Regnier's mother.
He took part in the composition of several plays of the boulevard theatre genre which were presented at the Théâtre du Gymnase dramatique and the Théâtre du Vaudeville.
He lost reason while performing in 1826 and died of a "mental illness" in the lunatic asylum in Charenton.