Jean-Jacques Olivier

Jean-Olivier Francillon , called Jean-Jacques Olivier (born March 31, 1877 in Puteaux , Hauts-de-Seine department , † March 20, 1954 in Paris ) was a French writer.

Live and act

After finishing school, Olivier began studying in Paris. He began to write at an early age and made the theater - especially the theater landscape of Paris - his subject.

Jean-Jacques Olivier died eleven days before his 77th birthday on March 20, 1954 in Paris, where he also found his final resting place.

Works (selection)

as an author

• Voltaire et les comédiens interprètes de son théâtre. Étude sur l'art théâtral et les comédiens au XVIIIe siècle . Paris 1899.
• Les comédiens français dans les cours d'Allemagne au XVIIIe siècle . Slatkine, Geneva 1971 (reprint of Paris 1901/05 edition)
• Henri-Louis Le Cain de la Comédie-Française . 1729-1778 . Société Française, Paris 1907.
• Une étoile de la danse au XVIIIe siècle. La Barbarina Campanini (1721-1799) . New edition Société Française, Paris 1910.
  • German translation: Barberina Campanini. A lover of Frederick the Great . Marquardt Publishing House, Berlin 1909.
• Pierre-Louis Dubus-Préville de la Comédie-Française. 1721-1799 . Société Française, Paris 1913.
• Mme Dugazon de la Comédie-Italienne . 1755-1821 . Société Française, Paris 1917.

as editor

• Frederick the Great: Le singe de la mode. Comédie en 1 acte en prose (Les oubliés, les inconnus; Vol. 1). Société Française, Paris 1902.
• Marc-Antoine-Jacques Rochonne de Chabanne : Heureusement. Comédie en un acte en vers 1762 (Les oubliés, les inconnus; Vol. 2). Société Française, Paris 1903.
• Voltaire: Semiramis . Tragedy (Textes littéraires français; vol. 5). Droz, Paris 1946.

as translator

• Carlo Gozzi : La princesse Turandot . Conte en 5 acts . NRF, Paris 1923.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jean-Jacques Olivier in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)