Dumanoir
French playwright and librettist
Philippe François Pinel (French pronunciation: [filip fʁɑ̃swa pinɛl] ), known as Dumanoir ([dymanwaʁ] ; 31 July 1806 – 16 November 1865), was a French playwright and librettist.
Biography
Dumanoir was born in Capesterre-Belle-Eau , Guadeloupe. He was the son of Mrs. Pinel-Dumanoir, whose family planted the palm trees lining the Allée Dumanoir in Guadeloupe.[ 1] He left Guadeloupe in 1816. Dumanoir wrote in the theatrical genre of Comédie en vaudevilles . He was director of the Théâtre des Variétés from 1837 to 1839. In 1844, he wrote in collaboration with Adolphe d'Ennery , an eponymous drama about Don César de Bazan , one of the characters in Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo .
He died in Pau .
List of major works
Le Petit Poucet by M M Dumanoir and Clairvile; Le général Tom Pouce au Théatre du Vaudeville.
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Plays
1842: Le Chevalier d'Éon , comedy in 3 acts, (with Jean-François Bayard ), Théâtre des Variétés
1839: Les Premières Armes de Richelieu [ 3] (with Jean-François Bayard), Théâtre du Palais Royal
1840: Indiana et Charlemagne (with Jean-François Bayard), Théâtre du Palais Royal
1842: Ma maîtresse et ma femme ,[ 4] comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, (with Adolphe d'Ennery ), Théâtre des Variétés
1843: Les Hures-Graves (with Clairville and Paul Siraudin ), Théâtre du Palais Royal
1844: Don César de Bazan [fr ] (with Adolphe d'Ennery), Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin
1845: Le Code des femmes , Théâtre du Palais Royal
1846: Gentil-Bernard ou L'Art d'aimer (with Clairville), Théâtre des Variétés
1849: Exposition des produits de la République [fr ] , comédie en vaudevilles in 3 acts (with Eugène Labiche and Clairville), Théâtre du Palais Royal
1853: La Case de l'oncle Tom ,[ 5] (with Adolphe d'Ennery), Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique
1857: Les Bourgeois gentilshommes , comedy in 3 acts, in prose, Théâtre du Gymnase
1862: Les Invalides du mariage , comedy in 3 acts (with Lafargue), Théâtre du Gymnase
Opera and ballet
Filmography
Don Caesar de Bazan , directed by Robert G. Vignola (1915, based on the play Don César de Bazan )
Don Cesar, Count of Irun , directed by Luise Kolm and Jacob Fleck (Austria, 1918, based on the play Don César de Bazan )
The Adventurer , directed by J. Gordon Edwards (1920, based on the play Don César de Bazan )
Rosita , directed by Ernst Lubitsch (1923, based on the play Don César de Bazan )
The Spanish Dancer , directed by Herbert Brenon (1923, based on the play Don César de Bazan )
Don Cesare di Bazan , directed by Riccardo Freda (Italy, 1942, based on the play Don César de Bazan )
The Seventh Sword , directed by Riccardo Freda (Italy, 1962, based on the play Don César de Bazan )
Decorations
References
Sources
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