Maxime de Redon

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Maxime de Redon , actually Marquis Maxime de Redon des Chapelles (* 17 ..? In Brittany ; † 18 ..?) Was a French author, theater owner, vaudevillist and librettist .

Redon came from Brittany, but also stayed in Lectoure before coming to Paris. Redon was first a cavalry officer and only then turned to the theater. He created a considerable number of dramas between 1798 and 1811. From 1806 until the end of the restoration , he was mainly known as a vaudevillist. Between 1805 and 1807 he ran the Théâtre des jeunes Éleves with a partner .

He also came into the public eye through his political writing on the emigration and compensation of the aristocrats who fled and dispossessed during the French Revolution and the way the political industry dealt with it. The National Assembly then also dealt with this .

His play La queue de Ruy Brac , published in 1838 , a parody of Victor Hugo's , very controversial drama Ruy Blas , published in the same year caused a sensation . The subtitle was Redon's piece with a cake in five meatballs, seasoned with coarse salt, rhymes and verses .

Redon's pieces were not only played at his own, the Théâtre des jeunes Éleves, but also at the Théâtre des Jeunes-Artistes , the Théâtre forain du Luxembourg , the Théâtre Louvois , the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques, which was briefly called Théâtre Dorsay.

Publications (excerpt)

Political Writings

  • Les Hommes et les principes, épître à un jeune homme à son départ du collège , 1820
  • De l'emigration et des indemnités , 1824
  • Réflexions sur l'emigration, l'indemnité et les circulaires ministérielles , 1825

Stage plays

  • L'intrigue dans la rue: ou, Le professeur de Montmartre , Vaudeville, 1805
  • Confidence pour confidence , Comedy, 1811
  • Les Écoliers, tableau mêlé de chants , Singspiel, 1823
  • Le Faux ermite , Annotated Panthomime, 1828
  • La queue de Ruy Brac: Tourte en cinq boulettes, avec assaisonnement de gros sel, de vers et de couplets , 1838

literature

  • Revue de Gascogne: Questions et réponses: Maxime de Redon en Gascogne , 1898, p. 440, digitized
  • Joseph-Marie Quérard: La France littéraire ou dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, historiens et gens de lettres de la France , 1835, p. 487, digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicolas Brazier: Chroniques des petits théâtres de Paris , 1883, p. 247, digitalized , accessed on March 12, 2019
  2. ↑ Journal des débats politiques et littéraires , edition of November 16, 1824, digitized , accessed on March 12, 2019
  3. ↑ Alexandre Hepp: Histoire de Ruy-Blas , 1879, p. 32, digitalized , accessed on March 12, 2019
  4. ↑ Joseph Marie Quérard: La littérature française contemporaine. XIXe siècle , 1857, p. 140, digitized , accessed on March 12, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Redon, Maxime de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Redon des Chapelles, Marquis Maxime de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French playwright, author and vaudevillist
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Brittany
DATE OF DEATH 19th century