Charles Joseph Édouard Potier, called Charles (Bordeaux, 1806 – Asnières-sur-Seine, 28 April 1870) was a 19th-century French actor and playwright.
A son of Charles-Gabriel Potier, an actor at the Théâtre des Variétés (1826), the Théâtre du Palais-Royal than at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, his plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques, Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, Théâtre Déjazet.
Works
- Les 20000 francs, drama in 1 act mingled with songs, with Auguste-Louis-Désiré Boulé, 1832
- La Fille du bourreau, folie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Boulé, 1833
- Le Peloton de fil, moralité in 1 act, mingled with couplets, 1834
- Parce que, ou la Suite de Pourquoi ? , comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Boulé, 1835
- Fanchette, ou l'Amour d'une femme, drama-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Boulé, 1836
- Le Facteur, ou la Justice des hommes, drama in 5 acts, with Boulé and Charles Desnoyer, 1838
- La Sœur de l'ivrogne, drama-vaudeville in 1 act, with Désiré Gautier, 1839
- L'Amie et l'amant, ou La confiance du mari, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Hippolyte Rimbaut, 1840
- Le Bijoutier de Nuremberg, ou Elle me console, drama in 3 acts, with Adolphe Guénée, 1840
- Le Maître à tous, comedy in 2 acts mingled with singing, with Antony Béraud, 1840
- Léon, Georges et Marie, ou les Deux amours, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Félix Dutertre de Véteuil, 1841
- Le Marchand d'habits, drama in 5 acts, with Desnoyer, 1841
- Les Deux Joseph, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Nyon, 1842
- Tic, tac ! tic tac ! ou les Deux mariées, folie-vaudeville in 1 act, 1843
- À la belle étoile, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Édouard Brisebarre, 1844
- Estelle et Némorin, pastorale bouffonne in 2 acts, mingled with singing, with Michel Delaporte, 1844
- Le Mal du pays, drama-vaudeville in 3 parts, with Brisebarre, 1846
- Le Retour du conscrit, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, 1846
- Bal et bastringue, comédie en vaudevilles in 3 acts, with Brisebarre, 1847
- Deux loups de mer, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Brisebarre, 1847
- Sans dot !, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Brisebarre, 1847
- Tantale, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Brisebarre, 1847
- Élevés ensemble, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Narcisse Fournier, 1848
- L'Été de la Saint-Martin, comedy in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with Brisebarre, 1848
- Le Voyage de Nanette, drame-vaudeville in 3 acts and 4 tableaux, with Brisebarre, 1848
- Adrienne de Carotteville, ou La reine de la fantaisie, parody in un act of the 17th, 33th, 78th, 93th, 96th, 112th, 129th, and 168th episodes of the Juif errant, with Eugène Nyon and Brisebarre, 1849
- Les Fredaines de Troussard, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Brisebarre and Commerson, 1849
- Qui se dispute s'adore, proverb in 1 act, with Henry de Kock, 1850
- Un Coin du Palais de Cristal, à-propos-vaudeville in 1 act and 2 tableaux, with Théodore Faucheur, 1851
- Une Soirée agitée, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Faucheur, 1852
- Le Bonhomme Dimanche, revue-féerique in 4 acts and 20 tableaux, with Amédée de Jallais and Jules Renard, 1853
- Le Carton vivant, comédie en vaudevilles in 2 acts, with Alexandre Flan, 1853
- Un Homme seul, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Faucheur, 1853
- Un Monsieur seul, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Faucheur, 1853
- Où peut-on être mieux ?, comédie en vaudevilless in 1 act, with Paulin Deslandes, 1853
- Le Forgeron de Gretna-Green, comédie en vaudevilles in 2 acts, with Flan, 1854
- Où passerai-je mes soirées ?, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Gaston de Montheau, 1854
- Voilà ce qui vient de paraître, revue of the year 1854, in 3 acts and 16 tableaux, with Adolphe Guénée, 1854
- La Dame aux trois maris, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Guénée, 1855
- Dzing ! Boum ! Boum !, revue de l'Exposition, in 3 acts and 16 tableaux, with Guénée, 1855
- L'Enfant du petit monde, comédie en vaudevilles in 3 acts, with Guénée, 1855
- Vous allez voir ce que vous allez voir, revue of the year 1855, in 3 acts and 16 tableaux, with Guénée, 1855
- Allons-y gaiment, revue of the year 1856, in 3 acts and 14 tableaux, with Guénée, 1856
- Les Dragées du 16 mars, à-propos mingled with couplets, with Guénée, 1856
- Si j'étais riche, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Guénée, 1856
- En avant, marche !, revue of the year1857, in 3 acts and 16 tableaux, La Guerre des saisons, prologue, with Guénée, 1857
- Petit Bonhomme vit encore, féerie in 15 tableaux, 1857
- Le Premier feu, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Guénée, 1857
- Jacquot Renchéri, parody in 3 tableaux, of the Fils naturel, with Émile Abraham, 1858
- La Jeunesse du jour, play mingled with songs, in 3 acts and 6 tableaux, with Eugène de Fère, 1858
- Tout Paris y passera, revue of the year 1858, in 3 acts and 14 tableaux, preceded by Paris sur scène, prologue, with Guénée, 1858
- Vingt ans ou la Vie d'un séducteur, drame-vaudeville in 5 acts, with Deslandes, 1858
- L'Éventail de Géraldine, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Ernest Mouchelet and Edgard Chanu, 1859
- Le Doigt dans l’œil, revue of the year 1860, in 3 acts and 20 tableaux, with Dunan Mousseux, 1860
- Les Leçons de Betzy, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Abraham, 1860
- Les Piliers de café, drame-vaudevilles in 4 acts, with Abraham and Eugène Hugot, 1861
- Les Trois ivresses, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, 1863
Bibliography
- Pierre Larousse, Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, 1866, (p. 1520)
- Alfred Mézières, Lettres, sciences, arts: Encyclopédie universelle du XXe, 1908, (p. 209)
- Henry Lyonnet, Dictionnaire des comédiens français (ceux d'hier), 1910
- Guy Dumur, Histoire des spectacles, 1965, (p. 1893)
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