Edouard Montagne

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Édouard Montagne (born August 18, 1830 in Paris , † April 30, 1899 ibid) was a French author, librettist and journalist.

biography

Montagne was the son of a householder at a boarding school. Nothing is known about his training himself, but he pursued a career in the public service. Montagne worked in the commercial department of the Hôpital Cochin , the boucherie centrale des hôpitaux and the Hôpital Saint-Antoine , where he had gradually worked his way up to director. From the mid-1850s, Montagne wrote vaudevilles , comedies and also militaristic pieces on a part-time basis, which were performed in the most famous theaters in Paris, such as the Opéra-Comique , the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique , the Théâtre du Palais-Royal and the Théâtre des Délassements – Comiques was premiered.

In 1877 Montagne retired, while maintaining the management of the Hôpital Saint-Antoine and largely withdrew as a librettist. Now he wrote a number of novels and some non-fiction books. He was also very busy as a journalist and editor at the Mémorial Diplomatique magazine . Montagne was also a founding member of the Association des Journalistes Parisiens, founded in 1885 .

Surprisingly, Montagne, together with the young Georges Hüe , won the Concours Crescent in 1879 for his Opéra-comique Les Pantines .

In 1886 he was first elected as a delegate of the Société de Gens de lettres and also won the annual re-election until his retirement in 1898.

Only one son of Montagnes is known, who was killed by a tiger near Nha Trang in 1896 . Montagne was so badly affected that he refused any condolences and a funeral procession to the family grave on the Père Lachaise .

Montagne died, highly decorated among other things with the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur and the officier de l'Instruction publique , at the age of 69 after a long illness.

Work (excerpt)

Libretti

  • Dans une île déserte , Vaudeville, 1857, Ambigu-Comique
  • La Medaille , Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens
  • Une giroflée à cinq feuilles , 1859, Vaudeville, Théâtre du Palais-Royal
  • Un Monsieur tombé des nues , Vaudeville, 1861, Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques
  • Le Retour d'Ulysse , operetta, 1862, Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques
  • Les Pantines , 1881, Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique

Fiction

  • Le Manteau d'Arlequin (1868)
  • Le Roman d´un épicier (1882)
  • Le Bâtard de Ravaillac (1883)
  • La main du mort (1885)
  • Les Affameés de Londres (1886)
  • Serments de femmes (1888)
  • La Borgnotte , with Louis Gallet (1890)
  • Jeanne de Soyans , with Louis Gallet (1892)

Others

  • Histoire de la prostitution dans l'antiqité (1869)
  • Histoire de l'insurrection (1871)
  • Histoire des farceurs célèbres , with Henry de Kock (1875)
  • Histoire de la Société des gens de lettres de France (1888)
  • Les Legends de la Perse (1890)

literature

  • Bulletin de l'Association des journalistes parisiens: Éloges Funérres - Montagne (Edouard) , April 15, 1900, pp. 21f., Digitized
  • Le Monde artiste: Nécrologue , 7th May 1899 edition, p. 303, digitized
  • Gustave Vapereau : Dictionnaire universel des contemporains , Paris: Hachette Livre , 1893 p. 1124, digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal officiel de la République française , edition of November 20, 1879, sheet 10267, digitized version , accessed on July 18, 2019
  2. ↑ Le Temps : Dévoré par un tigre , edition of July 25, 1896, p. 3, digitized version , accessed on July 18, 2019
  3. ↑ Annuaire-almanach du commerce: Hôpital St-Antoine , 1888, p. 810, digitized version , accessed on July 18, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Montagne, Édouard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French librettist and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1899
Place of death Paris