Michel Masson

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Auguste Michel Benoît Gaudichot-Masson , called Michel Masson (born July 31, 1800 in Paris , † April 23, 1883 there ) was a French novelist and playwright . Together with Raymond Brucker, he also used the pseudonym Michel Raymond .

Life

Auguste Michel Benoît Gaudichot-Masson was born into a working-class family and worked in several professions before he managed to live as an author. He wrote some well-known novels in his day that were published in illustrated works, for example Contes de l'atelier (1832), Souvenirs d'un enfant du peuple (1838–1841) and Les Drames de la conscience (1866). Together with well-known authors such as Eugène Scribe and Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois , he wrote dramas and vaudevilles .

Novels, plays and libretti (excerpt)

  • Daniel le lapidaire ou les contes de l'atelier (1829), novel, with Raymond Bruckner
  • Les Cuisiniers Diplomates (1828), Vaudeville in one act, with Claude Louis Marie de Rochefort-Luçay
  • Le Tir au pistolet (1829), Vaudeville in one act and two tableaux (1829)
  • Le Procès du Baiser (1829), Comédie-Vaudeville in two acts
  • Frétillon, ou la Bonne Fille (1829), Vaudeville in one act, with Philippe François Pinel Dumanoir
  • Le Garde de Nuit, ou le Bal Masqué (1829), Comédie-Vaudeville in three acts
  • Les Oubliettes, ou le Retour de Pontoise (1830), sketch from the XIII. Century in two acts with couplets , together with Jean-François Bayard
  • Trois Jours en Une Heure (1830), tableau with couplets, with Auguste Michel Benoit Gabriel
  • Les Deux Mondes (1831), move in two acts with couplets, with Auguste Michel Benoit Gabriel
  • Le Grand Prix, ou le Voyage à Frais Communs (1831), Opéra Comique in three acts, with Auguste Michel Benoit Gabriel
  • Les Pilules dramatiques, ou le Choléra-Morbus (1831), political-critical revue in one act with Adolphe de Ribbing , Claude Louis Marie de Rochefort-Luçay and Théodore Ferdinand Vallou De Villeneuve
  • L'Entrevue; ou, les Deux Impératrices (1831), Comédie-Vaudeville in one act, with Théodore Ferdinand Vallou De Villeneuve
  • La Jardinière de l'Orangerie (1831), Comédie-Vaudeville in one act, e with Théodore Ferdinand Vallou De Villeneuve
  • Atar-Gull (1832), melodrama in three acts based on a novel by Eugène Sue, with Auguste Anicet Bourgeois and Eugène Sue
  • Mon Oncle Thomas (1832), Pièce in five acts and six tableaux, with couplets, with Guillaume Charles Antoine Pigault Lebrun
  • Les Deux Frères (1833), Vaudeville in three acts based on a comedy by August von Kotzebue , with Joseph Patrat and Théodore Ferdinand Vallou De Villeneuve
  • Le Triolet Bleu (1834), Comédie-Vaudeville in five acts, with Théodore Ferdinand Vallou De Villeneuve
  • Les Enfants Célèbres ou histoire des enfants de tous les siecles (1842)
  • Os Orphãos da Ponte de Nossa Senhora (1853), with Auguste Anicet Bourgeois and Antonio Rego
  • Les Enfants Célébres (1861)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The work served as a template for the opera La fiancée by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber ; the partial narrative Le grain de sable was the source for Johann Nestroy's The Insignificant
  2. ^ Libretto for the Opéra comique of the same name by Adolphe Adam
personal data
SURNAME Masson, Michel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaudichot-Masson, Auguste Michel Benoît; Raymond, Michel (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French novelist and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , Seine department , France
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1883
Place of death Paris , Seine department , France