Auguste Creuzé de Lesser
Baron Auguste Creuzé de Lesser (3 October 1771 – 14 August 1839) was a French poet, playwright, librettist and politician.
Also recorded as Auguste Creuze de Lesser · Augustin Creuzé de Lesser
Auguste Creuzé de Lesser
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- Name
- Auguste Creuzé de Lesser
- Born
- 3 October 1771
- Birthplace
- Paris
- Died
- 14 August 1839
- Occupation
- Playwright Poet Liberttist Politician
- Nationality
- France
- Education
- College of Juilly
- Honours
- Montyon Science Award
- Languages
- French
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Baron Auguste Creuzé de Lesser (3 October 1771 – 14 August 1839) was a French poet, playwright, librettist and politician.
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Biography
Biography
Auguste Creuzé de Lesser studied at College of Juilly. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Positions recorded include member of Parliament for Saône-et-Loire and Prefect of Charente. Distinctions recorded are Montyon Science Award.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Auguste Creuzé de Lesser • Born — 3 October 1771 • Birthplace — Paris • Died — 14 August 1839 • Occupation — Playwright Poet Liberttist Politician
Works
Works
• Illustration — La revanche - comedy by François Roger and Creuzé de Lesser • 1790: Satires de Juvenal, traduction en prose • 1796: Le Seau enlevé, poème héroï-comique, imitated from Tassoni, suivi d'un choix des stances les plus intéressantes de l'auteur italien et de quelques poésies • 1806: Voyage en Italie et en Sicile, fait en 1801 et 1802 Text online at Gallica • 1811: La Table ronde, poem • 1812: Roland, poem • 1813: Amadis de Gaule, poème, faisant suite à la Table ronde • 1814: El Cid, romances espagnoles imitées en romances françaises • 1825: Apologues • 1831: Le Dernier Homme, poème imité de Grainville • 1832: De la Liberté, ou Résumé de l'histoire des républiques • 1834: Étrennes pour les enfants. Contes de fées mis en vers, imités de Perrault et autres • 1834: Annales secrètes d'une famille pendant 1800 ans mises au jour (2 volumes) • 1835: Les Véritables Lettres d'Héloïse, in verse • 1837: Le Roman des romans (2 volumes) • 1839: La Chevalerie, ou les Histoires du Moyen Âge, composées de La Table ronde, Amadis, Roland, poèmes sur les trois grandes familles de la chevalerie romanesque • 1839: Le Naufrage et le Désert • Theatre and opera • 1794: Les Voleurs, tragedy in five acts in prose after Friedrich von Schiller • 1798: Les Français à Cythère, comedy in 1 act in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with René-André-Polydore Alissan de Chazet and Emmanuel Dupaty, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 17 March • 1799: Ninon de Lenclos, ou l'Épicuréisme, comédie en vaudeville in 1 act and in prose, Théâtre des Troubadours, 2 September • 1799: La Clef forée, ou la Première Représentation, anecdote en vaudevilles in 1 act, with François-Pierre-Auguste Léger, Théâtre des Troubadours, 17 October • 1806: Monsieur Deschalumeaux ou la Soirée de carnaval, opéra bouffon in three acts, music by Pierre Gaveaux, Opéra-Comique, 17 February • 1806: Le Déjeuner de garçons, comedy mingled with music, Théâtre Feydeau, 24 April • 1807: L'Amante sans le savoir, one-act opéra comique, music by Jean-Pierre Solié, Théâtre Feydeau • 1809: Le Secret du ménage, comedy in 3 acts and in verse, Théâtre-Français, 25 May Text online • 1809: La Revanche, three-act comedy, with François Roger, Comédie-Française, 15 July • 1809: Le Diable à quatre, ou la Femme acariâtre, three-act opéra comique, after Michel-Jean Sedaine, music by Jean-Pierre Solié, Théâtre Feydeau, 30 November • 1810: Le Présent de noces, ou le Pari, one-act opéra comique, music by Henri François Berton, Théâtre Feydeau, 2 January • 1801: Les Deux Espiègles, one-act comédie en vaudeville, with François Roger, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 8 January • 1811: Le Magicien sans magie, two-act opéra comique, with François Roger, Opéra-Comique, 4 November • 1811: Ninette à la cour, opéra comique in 2 acts and in verse, after Charles-Simon Favart, music by Henri Montan Berton, Opéra-Comique, 24 December • 1811: Le Billet de loterie, one-act comedy, mingled with ariettes, with François Roger, music by Nicolas Isouard, Opéra-Comique, 14 September • 1813: Le Nouveau Seigneur de village, one-act opéra comique, with Edmond de Favières, music by François-Adrien Boieldieu, Opéra-Comique, 29 June • 1813: Mlle de Launay à la Bastille, one-act historical comedy, mingled with ariettes, with François Roger, Opéra-Comique, 16 December • 1932: Le Prince et la Grisette, comedy in 3 acts and in verse, Paris, Théâtre-Français, 11 January
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the headings Auguste Creuze de Lesser and Augustin Creuzé de Lesser. His recorded language was French. Other recorded relations include Simon-Pierre Mérard de Saint-Just, Édoard Creuzé and Laurent Cunin-Gridaine.
Career and activity
Career and activity
Recorded positions include member of Parliament for Saône-et-Loire, Prefect of Charente, Prefect of Hérault and Sub-prefect of Autun. He worked at Paris.
Identity
Identity
Auguste Creuzé de Lesser is recorded as politician, poet, librettist, playwright and writer.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1771
Auguste Creuzé de Lesser born at Paris.
1839
Auguste Creuzé de Lesser died at Villers-en-Arthies.
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Paris.
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Villers-en-Arthies.
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Notes from the source article
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- 1.Sometimes called Augustin, Augustin-François ou Auguste-François. His first works were published under the sole name Auguste.
- 2.Auguste Creuzé de Lesser. Cité par Hoefer (cf. sources).
- 3.François Jean Philibert Aubert de Vitry. Cité par Larousse (cf. sources).
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Anonyme, Répertoire général du Théâtre-Français, composé des tragédies, comédies et drames des auteurs du premier et du second ordre, restés au Théâtre-Français, H. Nicolle, Paris, vol. XXIV, 1817, (p. 113).
- Ferdinand Hoefer, Nouvelle Biographie générale, Firmin-Didot, Paris, vol. XII, 1855, col. 453-454.
- Pierre Larousse, Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe, vol. V, 1869, (p. 510).
- Frédéric Godefroy, Histoire de la littérature française depuis le XVIe jusqu'à nos jours, vol. VII, XIXe, poètes, t. I, 1878, (p. 16-19).
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