Louis François Clairville
Clairville. Photo: Étienne Carjat .
Louis François Clairville (born January 28, 1811 in Lyon , † February 7, 1879 in Paris ), actually Louis François Nicolaie , was a French playwright and librettist .
Life
His works can all be assigned to the vaudeville and contain numerous allusions , parodies , puns and couplets . In nineteenth-century reference works, Clairville is referred to as the "model of the Berlin bosom poets " .
Clairsville wrote among other things the libretti for operettas Daphnis et Chloe by Jacques Offenbach and La fille de Madame Angot (German: Mademoiselle Angot, the daughter of the hall ) by Charles Lecocq and Feerien as Les sept châteaux du diable , Cendrillon and La lanterne magique.
Web links
Wikisource: Clairville (Louis-François Nicolaïe) - Sources and full texts (French)
- Literature by and about Louis François Clairville in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Clairville, Louis François, actually Nicolaie . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon 1885-1892, 4th volume, pages 153-154 and Meyers Konversationslexikon 5th ed. Vol. 4 (1894) p. 200
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Clairville, Louis François |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clairville; Nicolaie, Louis François (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French playwright and librettist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1879 |
| Place of death | Paris |