Claude Étienne Le Bauld de Nans

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Claude Étienne Le Bauld de Nans (around 1790)

Claude Étienne Le Bauld de Nans , also Lebauld or Lebeau (born May 12, 1735 in Besançon , † April 3, 1792 in Berlin ), was an actor, director and French teacher.

family

Claude Étienne was born on May 12, 1735 in Besançon as the son of Claude Joseph Lebeau and Jeanne Huguette Rolet. In the early 1760s he married Suzanne de la Haye (* around 1734; † December 17, 1818 in Rheinsberg ). The marriage resulted in four sons:

  • Peter (born September 12, 1764 in Schwetzingen, † September 24, 1842 in Rheinsberg), Chamber Councilor of Prince Heinrich of Prussia at Rheinsberg Castle and landowner.
  • Claudius Franz Josef (born February 12, 1767 in Mannheim; † February 12, 1844 in Breslau), major general in the Prussian engineering corps.

Professional background

Lodge house with apartment of the Le Bauld family

Le Bauld probably studied in Parma , among other places , where he was accepted into a Masonic lodge in 1755 . Later he made contact with the French court theater of Philip of Spain, Duke of Parma , and his daughter Isabella of Bourbon-Parma .

At the beginning of the 1760s he received an engagement as a member of the Comédie-Française at the court of the Palatinate Elector Karl Theodor in Mannheim or in his summer residence in Schwetzingen. In 1770, French comedy was given up there in favor of German drama.

Le Bauld was able to continue his work at the court of Prince Alexander Ferdinand von Thurn und Taxis in Regensburg as a theater director through the mediation of his brother Claude Pierre Le Bauld (1745–1775) . Since Alexander Ferdinand's successor, Karl Anselm von Thurn und Taxis , found no interest in French drama, the ensemble said goodbye in spring 1774.

In 1774/75 he moved to Berlin, where he used the stage name Le Bauld de Nans and on April 22, 1776 took part as an actor in the opening of the new French comedy house , whose director he became a little later. At the beginning of 1778 Frederick the Great was tired of the French theater, and a little later the War of the Bavarian Succession began , so that in Berlin, also because of the expected additional costs, the French theater was given up.

From then on, Le Bauld mainly worked as a French language teacher at the court of the Prussian princess and later Queen Friederike Luise , and he also taught the von Humboldt brothers . Contemporary witnesses described him as " ... indisputably the best and most thorough teacher of the French language in his day". In addition, he occasionally directed Friederike's court theater in Potsdam, which granted him a pension for his work.

From 1781 until his death he was editor of the Berlin weekly newspaper Gazette littéraire de Berlin .

Contemporary witnesses described Le Bauld: "He was a talented man [he had thorough humanistic, literary and art knowledge], but stubborn, stubborn, opinionated, arrogant, and, guided by this, acted often very inconsistently" .

Freemasonry

Le Bauld was accepted into a Masonic lodge in Parma in 1755, around 1763 he was the new founder of the St. Charles de l'Union lodge in Mannheim and was its master of the chair between 1766 and 1773 . On March 29, 1776, he joined the Royal York Lodge in Berlin, where he held various offices until 1787 (e.g. speaker, representative, librarian). After all, he was their master of the chair from 1788 to 1792. He lived for a time in the Logenhaus on the Neustadt, on Leste Strasse ( Villa Kamecke , later Dorotheenstrasse No. 24).

Works (selection)

  • Recueil de pièces fugitives . Mannheim 1769 (209 pages, collection of poems; manuscript, Munich State Library, signature Cod. Gall. 423).
  • Epithalame Sur Le Marriage de LL. AA. SS. Monseigneur Frederich-Auguste, Electeur de Saxe, & Madame Amelie-Auguste, Princesse Palatine de Deux-Ponts . 1769 ( slub-dresden.de ).
  • Le Négociant et le Juif de Venise . Berlin 1775 (86 pp., Comedy in 5 acts, created by Shakespeare's merchant from Venice ; manuscript, Munich State Library, signature Cod. Gall. 424).
  • Recueil De Discours prononcés en différentes époques solemnelles, Dans la V [énéra] ble & Très ancienne Loge Française La Royale Yorck De L'Amitié Séante à L'O. de Berlin, affiliée à la GL d'Angleterre, le 24e. Juin 1767 . Berlin 1781, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10435401-4 .
  • La Famille Ridicule . Berlin 1789 (141 pages, comedy in 5 acts; Halle University Library, call number AB 35703).
  • Le Bouquet de la Famille Royale, au Jour Anniversaire de la Naissance de sa Majesté la Reine de Prusse . Berlin 1789 (libretto for Queen Friederike Luise's birthday, music by Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach ; Latvian State Library, call number RW2 / 1547, I).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Schwarz: History of the just and perfect St. Johannis Lodge "Karl zur Eintracht" in Mannheim. Festschrift to celebrate the fifty years of resurrection of this lodge . Mannheim 1896, p. 17 .
  2. ↑ Archives: Registres paroissiaux (1543–1794). Archives municipales de Besançon. May 12, 1735. Link
  3. ^ Archives: Germany, Baden, Archdiocese of Freiburg, Catholic church records, 1678–1930. familysearch.org. June 2, 1763. Link
  4. ^ Salary Compensation Commissions for the Eastern Provinces. In: Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
  5. ^ Archives: Germany, Baden, Archdiocese of Freiburg, Catholic church records, 1678–1930. familysearch.org. September 12, 1764. Link
  6. ^ Archives: Film adaptations of the Reichssippenamt. Holdings: Protestant parish Rheinsberg, burials 1804–1856. Leipzig State Archives, Central Office for Genealogy. 09/24/1842.
  7. ^ Archives: Germany, Baden, Archdiocese of Freiburg, Catholic church records, 1678–1930. familysearch.org. October 16, 1768. Link
  8. ↑ Handbook on the Royal Prussian Court and State . Berlin 1835, p. 198, 641 ( bsb-muenchen.de ).
  9. ^ Friedrich Walter: History of the theater and music at the Electoral Palatinate Court (=  research on the history of Mannheim and the Palatinate ). Leipzig 1898, p. 246, 249, 342, 350 ( archive.org ).
  10. ^ Sigfrid Färber: The Regensburg Princely Thurn and Taxis Court Theater and its opera 1760–1781 . In: Negotiations of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg . tape 86 . Regensburg 1936, p. 3–60, here pp. 30, 34–35, 37, 40 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 355-ubr02227-4 .
  11. ^ Carl Martin Plümicke: Draft of a theater history of Berlin . Berlin 1781, p. 159-160, 382 ( google.de ).
  12. ^ Ludwig Achim von Arnim: Collections for the history of theater . In: Contributions to the history of dramatic art . tape 2 . Berlin 1828, p. 1–42, here pp. 36–40 ( bsb-muenchen.de ).
  13. ^ Karl Bruhns (Ed.): Alexander von Humboldt . tape 1 . Leipzig 1872, p. 31 ( google.de ).
  14. ^ Friedrich Mossdorf (Ed.): Fessler's retrospectives on the last six years of his lodge activity . tape 1 . Dresden 1804, p. 14 ( archive.org ).
  15. ^ Carlo Giovanni Maria Denina : La Prusse littéraire sous Fréderic II . tape 2 . Berlin 1790, p. 393-395 ( google.de ).
  16. ↑ See in detail: François Labbé: Gazette littéraire de Berlin (1764–1792) (=  Les dix-huitièmes siècles . Volume 79 ). Paris 2004.
  17. ^ Friedrich Mossdorf (Ed.): Fessler's retrospectives on the last six years of his lodge activity . tape 1 . Dresden 1804, p. 13-14 ( archive.org ).
  18. ^ Wilhelm Schwarz: History of the just and perfect St. Johannis Lodge "Karl zur Eintracht" in Mannheim. Festschrift to celebrate the fifty years of resurrection of this lodge . Mannheim 1896, p. 16-17 . Uta Motschmann (Ed.): Handbook of Berlin Associations and Societies 1786–1815 . Berlin 2015 ( google.de ).
  19. ↑ Friedrich Nicolai: Description of the royal residence cities Berlin and Potsdam of all peculiarities located there, and the surrounding area . tape 3 . Berlin 1786, p. 2 (attachment) ( google.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Le Bauld de Nans, Claude Etienne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lebauld de Nans, Claude Etienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor, director and French teacher
DATE OF BIRTH baptized May 12, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH Besançon
DATE OF DEATH April 1792
Place of death Berlin