Mayeur de Saint-Paul
François-Marie Mayeur (born June 6, 1758 in Paris ; † December 18, 1818 ibid), called Mayeur de Saint-Paul after the parish church of St-Paul-St-Louis in the 4th arrondissement of Paris , was a French actor , director , Playwright and pamphlet writer.
Life
As a teenager he played in the Audinot theater group and at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique he quickly became an esteemed actor. He was considered unruly, which earned him repeated imprisonment in For-l'Évêque prison .
In 1779 he joined the Théâtre des Grands-Danseurs du Roi, which had been founded by Jean-Baptiste Nicolet in 1772. This commitment led him to the peak of his popularity. Towards the end of 1789 played with some other artists of this troupe under the direction of the dancer Placide in the French Antilles, including in Saint-Domingue, today's Haiti . The Haitian Revolution forced him to return to France. From 1791 he built the Théâtre du Vaudeville-Variétés in Bordeaux .
In the revolutionary Bordeaux he was accused of representing positions that were too moderate. He left the city, first to Nantes and then to Paris again in 1795, where he worked at the Théâtre de la Cité . In 1798 he sailed again to the colonies and worked for two years in Ile-de-France, today's Mauritius . Then he returned to Paris to continue his work at the Théâtre de la Gaîté . Between 1805 and 1815 he performed in the province; he had engagements in Bordeaux and Lyon as well as in Versailles and Dunkerque . Two years later he went to Corsica and directed the Bastia theater , where he had little success. Back in Paris, he died impoverished at the age of 60.
He is the author of sixty pieces, all of them dissolute and outrageous works in their time, which he always wrote anonymously. His pamphletic column "Chroniqueur désœuvré", which he wrote from 1781 to 1783, is above all the sum of the rumors of the Parisian theater world at the end of the 18th century.
Pamphlets
- Le Désœuvré ou l'Espion du boulevard du Temple , London 1781 (2nd edition 1782)
- Le Chroniqueur désœuvré ou l'Espion du boulevard du Temple, contenant les annales scandaleuses et véridiques des directeurs, acteurs et saltimbanques du boulevard, avec un résumé de leur vie et mœurs par ordre chronologique , London 1782–1783, 2 days. en 1 vol. (et 2 éd. en 1 vol., 1782)
- Le Vol plus haut, ou l'Espion des principaux théâtres de la capitale, contenant une histoire abrégée des acteurs et actrices de ces mêmes théâtres, enrichie d'observations philosophiques et d'anecdotes récréatives , Memphis, chez Sincère, libraié, réfits de la verite , 1784.
Web links
- His plays and productions
- Literature by and about Mayeur de Saint-Paul in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mayeur de Saint-Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mayeur, François-Marie (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French actor, director and playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1758 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 1818 |
| Place of death | Paris |