Paul Duport
Nicolas-Paul Duport (born April 22, 1798 in Paris ; † December 26, 1866 there ) was a French playwright and librettist . He also published under the pseudonyms MPD , Paulin and Erbert .
Paul Duport was the son of the playwright Auguste Duport . In his youth he attended the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris. Duport mainly wrote dramas and provided the libretti for operas and vaudevilles . He was also active as a journalist and wrote, for example, essays on William Shakespeare and worked in encyclopedias such as the biography universelle ancienne et moderne .
He often worked with colleagues such as Félix-Auguste Duvert , Eugène Scribe , Jean-François Bayard and Virginie Ancelot , initially mostly under a pseudonym. The quality of his work was always high, regardless of the attribution. It was only after 1835, after La fille de l'avare , that he mostly confessed to being the author.
His pieces have been given regularly at renowned theaters such as the Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell or the Théâtre des Nouveautés .
Works (excerpt)
- L'orphelin, ou, La loge et le salon: pièce anecdotique en deux actes, et melée de vaudevilles , 1828 as Paulin, with Edmond Rochefort
- Marie Mignot: comédie historique, mêlée de couplets, en trois époques , 1829 unnamed, with Jean-François Bayard
- La première cause, ou, Le jeune avocat: comédie-vaudeville en un acte , 1829, with Édouard Monnais
- Claire d'Albe, comédie en deux actes, mêlée de couplets , 1831, with Jean-François Bayard
- Une dame de l'empire, comédie-vaudeville en un acte , 1834 as Paulin, with Virginie Ancelot
- L'habit ne fait pas le moine, comédie-vaudeville en trois actes , 1835, with Amable de Saint-Hilaire
- La Champmeslé, comédie anecdotique en deux actes mêlée de chant , 1837 as Ebert, with Virginie Ancelot
- Le Dépositaire, comédie-vaudeville en trois actes , 1839 as a single work
- Trenitz , 1846, with Édouard Monnais
literature
- Gustave Vapereau , Dictionnaire universel des contemporains , Hachette, Volume 1, A – K, p. 600, Paris, 1880, digitized
Web links
- Information on Paul Duport in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Literature by and about Paul Duport in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Literature by and about Paul Duport in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Duport, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Duport, Nicolas-Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French playwright and librettist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 1866 |
| Place of death | Paris |