Pierre Carmouche

Pierre-François-Adolphe Carmouche (9 April 1797, Lyon - December 1868) was a French playwright. He wrote more than 200 successful plays, comedies, vaudevilles and texts for opéras comiques, in collaboration with diverse collaborators - Brazier, Dumersan, Mélesville, de Courcy, etc.

In 1824 he married the actress Jenny Vertpré.

He also collected a rich library, bequeathed in part to marshal Canrobert.

Sources

• Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des littératures, Paris, Hachette, 1876, p. 381

External links

• Works by or about Pierre Carmouche at Internet Archive (scanned books original editions color illustrated)