Léonor Jean Christine Soulas d'Allainval
Born1700 Edit this on Wikidata
Chartres Edit this on Wikidata
Died2 May 1753 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 52–53)
Paris Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationPlaywright Edit this on Wikidata
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Léonor-Jean-Christin Soulas d'Allainval, called abbé d'Allainval, 2 October 1696, in Chartres – 2 May 1753, in Hôtel-Dieu de Paris) was an 18th-century French playwright.

Life

He lived all his life in misery and died an indigent.[1] None of his plays were successful, except for a very short time his first comedy, L'Embarras des richesses, played four times in Paris during his lifetime and later considered a comedy "well conducted and well untied" and "one of his best works".[2] Only L'École des bourgeois brought him posthumous fame. Presented for the first time at the Comédie-Française in 1728, the play was revived only sixteen years after his death and played intermittently between 1769 and 1848. In 1854, it inspired Émile Augier and Jules Sandeau a new comedy which was like a sequel.[3]

Works

Theatre
  • 1725: L'Embarras des richesses, three-act comedy, Paris, Hôtel de Bourgogne, 9 July. Rrprint: Espaces 34, Montpellier, 2006. Read online
  • 1726: Le Tour de Carnaval, one-act comedy, Paris, Théâtre de l'hôtel de Bourgogne, 24 February Read online
  • 1726: La Fausse Comtesse, comedy in prose, Paris, Théâtre de la rue des Fossés Saint-Germain, 27 July
  • 1727: Le Tour de carnaval, one-act comedy, Paris, Théâtre de l'hôtel de Bourgogne
  • 1728: L'École des bourgeois, three-act comedy with prologue, Paris, Théâtre de la rue des Fossés Saint-Germain, 20 September reprint: Espaces 34, Montpellier, 2006. Read online
  • 1729: Les Réjouissances publiques, ou le Gratis, one-act comedy, Paris, Théâtre de la rue des Fossés Saint-Germain, 18 September
  • 1731: Le Mari curieux, one-act comedy, Paris, Théâtre de la rue des Fossés Saint-Germain, 17 July
  • 1733: L'Hiver, one-act comedy, Paris, Théâtre de l'hôtel de Bourgogne, 19 February
  • 1734: La Fée Marote, opéra-ballet in one act, Paris, Foire Saint-Laurent, 28 August
  • 1747Le Jugement de Pâris, ou le Triomphe de la beauté, one-act comedy, Théâtre de Toulouse, 1 July
Varia
  • 1730: Lettre à mylord *** on Baron and demoiselle Le Couvreur, où l'on trouve plusieurs particularités théâtrales, by Georges Wink. Reprint: Slatkine, Geneva, 1968. Read online
  • 1732–1733: Ana (Allainvaliana), ou Bigarrures calotines
  • 1745: Anecdotes du regne de Pierre premier, dit le grand, czar de Moscovie, contenant l'histoire d'Eudochia Federowna, & la disgrace du prince de Mencikow
  • 1746: Anecdotes du regne de Pierre premier, dit le grand, czar de Moscovie, contenant son ordonnance du 10-21 février 1720, pour la réformation de son clergé
  • 1785: Œuvres de l'abbé d'Allainval

See also

References

  1. ↑ Jean Baudrais, Petite Bibliotheque des théâtres, Paris, vol. 7, 1785, (p. 107).
  2. ↑ Chefs-d'œuvre des auteurs comiques, vol. III, 1872, mentioned by Albert Cim, Récréations littéraires, Hachette, Paris, 1920, (p. 62).
  3. ↑ Émile Augier et Jules Sandeau, Le Gendre de M. Poirier, four-act comedy, in prose, premiered at Paris at Théâtre du Gymnase 8 April 1854.
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