Alfred Delacour
Born
Pierre-Alfred Lartigue

3 September 1817
Bordeaux
Died31 March 1883(1883-03-31) (aged 65)
9th arrondissement of Paris
Occupation(s)Playwright and librettist.

Alfred Delacour or Alfred-Charlemagne Delacour, real name Pierre-Alfred Lartigue, (3 September 1817 [1] – 31 March 1883 [2]) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist.

Biography

In addition to his occupation as a physician, which he practised from 1841,[3] Delacour turned progressively to the theatre.[4] He collaborated with Eugène Labiche and Clairville for several vaudevilles [5]

Titles and decorations

Plays

Le Courrier de Lyon (1850) was one of Delacour's noted plays. It was written together with Eugène Moreau and Paul Siraudin. The play was based on the story of Joseph Lesurques, an innocent man who was executed after he was mistaken for the leader of a gang who brutally murdered a courier.[6] Aside from his collaborations with Labiche and Clairville, Delacour also worked with Lambert Thiboust on Le diable (1880), a French drama.[7] Some of the playwright's vaudeville plays inspired Clement Scott and Arthur Matthison's Great Divorce Case (1876) and James Albery's The Pink Dominos (1877).[8]

Adaptations for television

  • 1964: Célimare le bien-aimé, by Delacour and Eugène Labiche (1863), television film by René Lucot
  • 2009: La Cagnotte, by Delacour and Eugène Labiche (1864), television film by Philippe Monnier.

Bibliography

  • Hippolyte Minier, Le théâtre à Bordeaux, étude historique suivi de la nomenclature des auteurs dramatiques bordelais et de leurs ouvrages, établie en collaboration avec Jules Delpit, Bordeaux, 1883, (p. 53)

References

  1. ↑ and not in 1815 Alfred Delacour (1815-1883): individual pseudonyme
  2. ↑ Ville de Paris, état-civil du 9th arrondissement, registre des décès de 1883, acte n° 517.
  3. ↑ Louis Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, contenant toutes les personnes notables de la France et des pays étrangers… : Supplement to the IVth edition by Léon Garnier, Hachette, 1865, (p. 490).
  4. ↑ François Cavaignac, La culture théâtrale à Étampes au XIXth, éditions L'Harmattan, 2007, (p. 60).
  5. ↑ Jeanne Benay, L'opérette viennoise, Austriaca, n° 46, Publication Univ. Rouen Havre, 1998, (p. 159).
  6. ↑ Pisani, Michael V. (2014). Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-1-60938-230-8.
  7. ↑ Keridis, Dimitris; Kiesling, John Brady (2020-03-12). Thessaloniki: A City in Transition, 1912–2012. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-51366-4.
  8. ↑ Bennett, Michael Y. (2015). Oscar Wilde's Society Plays. Berlin: Springer. pp. 60–61. ISBN 978-1-137-41093-1.
  9. ↑ Bibliographic information
  10. ↑ This comédie en vaudevilles in one act has been translated into the Russian language by Pavel Feodorov (ru: Павел Степанович Фёдоров) in 1849 under the title Az et Fert (Аз и ферт) which was often performed and then adapted three times for film in the Russian language in 1946, 1981 and 2000.
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