Jules Joseph Gabriel

This article is about the theater poet Jules Joseph Gabriel. His brother Gabriel de Lurieu (1799-1889) was also a playwright.

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Jules Joseph Gabriel de Lurieu (born February 11, 1792 in Paris , † March 28, 1869 there ) was a French theater poet.

De Lurieu, who mostly published under his first name Jules Joseph Gabriel , was one of the most popular French comedy poets and librettists of his time. In 1812 he made his debut with the Vaudeville Haydn, ou Le Menuet du boeuf , which he had written together with Alexis-Jacques-Marie Vafflard . 1815 followed his first independently written Vaudeville Le Hussard, ou Le Saber magique . In 1832 Le Mari de la veuve appeared with the co-authors Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois and Alexandre Dumas the Elder . His greatest success was the piece Jacquot , which he wrote with Paul Vermond .

In total, more than 130 vaudevilles, comedies and opera librettos were created in the course of his life. Among them is u. a. Jocko, ou le singe du Brésil , written with Claude Louis Marie de Rochefort-Luçay , a piece that can be seen as the forerunner of Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Tarzan and was set in Paris in 1825 by Alexandre Piccini , in 1828 under the title Zoko, malpa brazylijska in Warsaw, composed by Józef Damse . Hippolyte Chelard composed the comic opera La Table et le logement based on a libretto by Gabriel , which premiered in Paris in 1829. With Sylvain Saint-Étienne he wrote the libretto for Felicien César David's opera La Perle du Brésil (premiered in 1851).