Louis-Benoît Picard
Illustration — Louis-Benoît Picard • Illustration — Pauline Auzou, Louis-Benoît Picard and his family, 1807, shown at the 1808 Paris Salon. Within the painting is a portrait of Pickard Elder, for which she won a medal in the 1806 Paris Salon. Louis-Benoît Picard (29 July 1769 in Paris – 31 December 1828 in Paris) was a French playwright, actor, novelist, poet and music director.
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Louis-Benoît Picard
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- Born
- 1769. · Paris.
- Died
- 1828. · former 7th arrondissement of Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- librettist, playwright, writer, actor, theatre manager and independent publisher.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Louis-Benoît Picard • Illustration — Pauline Auzou, Louis-Benoît Picard and his family, 1807, shown at the 1808 Paris Salon. Within the painting is a portrait of Pickard Elder, for which she won a medal in the 1806 Paris Salon. Louis-Benoît Picard (29 July 1769 in Paris – 31 December 1828 in Paris) was a French playwright, actor, novelist, poet and music director.
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Biography
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Son of a lawyer, and nephew of a doctor, Picard refused to follow the careers of law and medicine, and dedicated himself to the theater encouraged by his friend François Andrieux. He first became an actor before producing his first play, Le Badinage dangereux, in 1789. Picard worked with the Comédiens-Italiens. In 1807 Picard was received by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre when he was elected to the Académie française. Before he became the head of the Odéon-Théâtre in 1816, he directed the Académie Impériale de Musique. He was at Odéon-Théâtre until 1821. In the painting Louis-Benoît Picard and his family, Pauline Auzou depicts Picard with his wife Victoria Longchamps (far right), his brother and sisters Latour and Adele Picard and Mrs. Guersant. With Mrs. Guersant is her husband physician Louis Benoit Guersant, their son, Paul Benedict Guersant Louis, who became a doctor, and baby daughter who became Ms. Blache. LaTour's wife wore a red shawl over a black dress. The Picard's father, who had been a lawyer and parliamentarian, is represented in a portrait made by Auzou, which won a medal of honor at the 1806 Paris Salon. His writing desk holds his manuscripts and a book he is reading.
Works
Works
• Les Visitandines (put on at the Théâtre Feydeau on 7 August 1792, with music by François Devienne) • La vraie bravoure (1793) • Médiocre et rampant (1797) • Le Collatéral (1799) • Les Provinciaux à Paris (1801) • Le Contrat d'union (1801) • La Petite Ville (1801) • Les voisins (1802) • Les conjectures (1802) • Le vieux comédien (1803) • La Noce sans Mariage (1805) • Le Susceptible (1805) • Les oisifs (1809) • Un lendemain de fortune, ou Les embarras du bonheur (1811) • Un jeu de la fortune, ou Les marionnettes (1821)

Bust of Louis-Benoît Picard, french writer, in the Institut de France located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris in France.
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1769
Louis-Benoît Picard born at Paris.
1828
Louis-Benoît Picard died at former 7th arrondissement of Paris.
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- L'aventure théâtrale de Louis-Benoît Picard (1769-1828)
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- 1.Quoique l’État civil de Paris reconstitué, vue 11/51 indique qu’il est mort le 31 janvier 1829, il s’agit probablement d’une erreur. Le Journal des débats politiques et littéraires en date du 1er janvier 1829 indique qu’il est mort « aujourd’hui [donc la veille, le 31 décembre] à onze heure moins un quart du matin ». De plus, son successeur à l’Académie française, Antoine-Vincent Arnault, a été élu à son fauteuil dès le 5 février 1829. Il est impossible que le délai entre une vacance et une élection soit aussi court.
- 2.Œuvres de L. B. Picard. Jean Nicolas Barba. 1821.
- 3.État civil - Meylan – Coll. dép. archivesenligne.archives-isere.fr. 166.
- 4.Œuvres de L. B. Picard. 1821.
- 5.Duhautcours ou Le contrat d'union. Huet et Charon. an IX (1801).
- 6.Œuvres de L. B. Picard. 1821.
- 7.Œuvres de L. B. Picard. 1821.
- 8.Œuvres de L. B. Picard. 1821.
- 9.Œuvres de L. B. Picard. 1821.
- 10.Œuvres de L. B. Picard. Jean Nicolas Barba. 1832 pages totales=558.
- 11.Mémoires de Jacques Fauvel. Publication Antoine-Augustin Renouard. 1. 1823.
- 12.Mémoires de Jacques Fauvel. 2.
- 13.Mémoires de Jacques Fauvel,. 3.
- 14.Mémoires de Jacques Fauvel. 4.
- 15.Œuvres de L. B. Picard. Jean Nicolas Barba. 1832.
- 16.Œuvres de L. B. Picard.
- 17.Bertrand et Raton ou l'Intrigant et sa Dupe. Charles Lemesle. 1834.
- 18.Œuvres de L. B. Picard.
- 19.Œuvres de L. B. Picard.
- 20.Œuvres de L. B. Picard.
- 21.Le Cimetière du Père-Lachaise. S. Mercadier. 1908.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Jean Gourret, Ces hommes qui ont fait l'Opéra, Paris, Éditions Albatros, 1984, .
- Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des littératures, Paris, Hachette, 1884, .
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