Dumanoir
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Philippe François Pinel Dumanoir (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 vaudeville. He was director of the Théâtre des Variétés from 1837 to 1839. He wrote in 1844, 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, France.
List of major works[2]
Plays
- 1839 : Les Premières Armes de Richelieu (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, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, (with Adolphe d'Ennery), Théâtre des Variétés
- 1843 : Les Hures-Graves (with Clairville et Siraudin), Théâtre du Palais Royal
- 1844 : Don César de Bazan (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
- 1853 : La case de l'oncle Tom, (with Adolphe d'Ennery), Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique
- 1857 : Les Bourgeois gentilshommes, comédie en 3 actes, en prose, théâtre du Gymnase
- 1862 : Les Invalides du mariage, comédie en 3 actes (with Lafargue), Théâtre du Gymnase
Opera and Ballet
- 1840 : La Perruche, opéra-comique en 1 acte (avec Louis Clapisson et Jean-Henri Dupin)
- 1840 : Grisélidis ballet d'Adolphe Adam
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