Xavier-Boniface Saintine

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Xavier-Boniface Saintine

Xavier-Boniface Saintine (born July 17, 1798 in Paris ; † January 21, 1865 there ; pseudonym for: Joseph-Xavier Boniface ) was a French comedian, vaudeville and novelist.

Life

Saintine was an unusually productive playwright who was involved in around 200 plays as sole or co-author, mostly under the pseudonym Xavier with Eugène Scribe or other authors from his writing workshop. He wrote numerous vaudevilles under the pseudonym Picciola . Together with Jacques-François Ancelot , he wrote the comedy Têtes rondes et cavaliers (1833), which served as the literary model for Vincenzo Bellini's opera I puritani . The Vaudeville -Stück Le Bouffon du Prince (The Fool Prince) of 1831, which Boniface together with Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier had written, formed the basis of Victor Hugo's drama Le roi s'amuse (1832), which in turn template Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto (1851) was.

However, Saintine gained particular fame during his lifetime as a novelist, especially for La Picciola (1836), a novel about a political prisoner who finds spiritual support in prison in a small flower that grows in the prison yard between the cobblestones.

Works

Title page by Antoine (1839).
  • La bonheur que procure l'étude. Didactic poem. 1817.
  • Poëmes. 1823.
  • Jonathan le visionnaire. Novel. 1827.
  • Le mutilé. Novel. 1832.
  • Une maitresse de Louis XIII. Novel. 1834.
  • La Picciola. Novel. 1836 ( full text in Google book search).
  • Seul. Novel. 1857.

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personal data
SURNAME Saintine, Xavier-Boniface
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boniface, Joseph-Xavier (real name); Saintine, X-B .; Boniface-Saintine, Xavier; Saintine; Xavier; Picciola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French comedian, vaudeville and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1865
Place of death Paris