Paul Delair
Paul Alexandre Delair (24 October 1842 – 19 January 1894) was a 19th-century French playwright, poet, chansonnier and novelist. An administrator at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, he took an active part to the organization of the Exposition universelle of 1889. His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th-century, including the Théâtre du Vaudeville and the Comédie-Française.
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Paul Delair
- Birth Name
- Paul Alexandre Delair
- Born
- 24 October 1842
- Birthplace
- Montereau-Fault-Yonne, France
- Died
- 19 January 1894
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Occupation
- Poet Playwright Chansonnier
- Nationality
- France
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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Paul Delair, born on 24 October 1842 in Montereau (Seine-et-Marne) and died on 19 January 1894 in Paris, is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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• Birth Name — Paul Alexandre Delair • Born — 24 October 1842 • Birthplace — Montereau-Fault-Yonne, France • Died — 19 January 1894 • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — Poet Playwright Chansonnier
Works
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• 1868: La Découverte, ode sur la navigation • 1870: Les Nuits et les réveils • 1872: L’Éloge d'Alexandre Dumas • 1872: La Voix d'en haut, one-act à-propos dramatique, in verse • 1879: La Louve d'Alençon, historical novel • 1880: Théâtre de campagne • 1880: Garin, five-act drama, in verse • 1881: Le Fils de Corneille, à propos in verse • 1882: Le Fils du charpentier, tale in verse • 1883: Les Rois en exil, 5-acts play, in 7 tableaux, with Alphonse Daudet • 1884: Le Centenaire de Figaro, à-propos in verse • 1884: Les Contes d'à présent avec une lettre de Coquelin aîné sur la poésie dite en public et l'art de la dire • 1885: Apothéose, one-act play in verse • 1885: Louchon • 1887: Délivrance, cantata, music by Théodore Dubois • 1887: Rabelais à Molière, verse • 1891: Hélène, drama in 4 acts, incidental music by André Messager • 1891: La Mégère apprivoisée, four-act comédie lyrique • 1891: L’Âme des fleurs!, poetry, incidental music by Jules Massenet • 1893: La Vie chimérique, poems • 1894: Chanson d'automne, music by André Messager • 1895: Testament poétique, poésies posthumes, with Sully Prudhomme • 1897: Chansons épiques (Geste de Guillaume) • 1898: Chanson d'hiver!, music by C. de Grandval • 1898: Parfums des tilleuls!, poetry, music by Clémence de Grandval • 1899: Théâtre inédit • 1899: Ma belle m'a dit, poetry, music by Charles Cuvillier • 1903: Illusion!, lamento, music by Flégier • 1905: Musique d'antan, music by Cuvillier • 1908: L'Ile des fleurs!, melody, singing and piano, music by Ange Flégier
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Montereau-Fault-Yonne.
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17th arrondissement of Paris.
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Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus, André Berthelot, La Grande encyclopédie, vol.13, 1886, (p. 1161)
- Gérard Walch, Anthologie des poètes français contemporains, 1916, (p. 53)
- Robert Sabatier, Histoire de la poésie française du XIXe, vol.2, 1977, (p. 82)
- Jacques Delair, Paul Delair (1842-1894), undated
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