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Pierre Laujon

French playwright and chansonnier


French playwright and chansonnier

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birth_date13 January 1737
birth_placeParis, France
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death_placeParis, France
occupationPlaywright

Pierre Laujon (13 January 1727 – 13 July 1811) was a French playwright and chansonnier. He was uncle to the playwright Pierre-Yves Barré.

Works

;Theatre

  • 1745: La Fille, la veuve et la femme, parodie nouvelle des Fêtes de Thalie, Théâtre italien de Paris, 21 August
  • 1747: Daphnis et Chloé, pastorale, Paris, Académie royale de musique, 28 September
  • 1747–1748: Recueil des comédies et ballets, représentés sur le théâtre des petits appartements pendant l'hiver de 1747 à 1748
  • 1750: La Journée galante, ballet héroïque en 3 actes, représenté devant le Roi, sur le théâtre des petits appartements à Versailles, 25 February
  • 1754: Zéphire et Fleurette, one-act parody of Zelindor by François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif, Théâtre italien de Paris, 23 March
  • 1756: L'Amour impromptu, parodie de l'acte d'Eglé dans les Talents lyriques, Paris, Opéra-Comique, 10 July
  • 1762: Armide, parody of the opera Armide, in 4 acts, Théâtre italien de Paris, 11 January
  • 1763: Ismène et Isménias, ou la Fête de Jupiter, three-act opera, presented in front of their Majesties, in Choisy, Monday 13 June
  • 1765: Silvie, three-act opara with a prologue, presented in front of their Majesties in Fontainebleau, 17 October
  • 1771: L'Amoureux de quinze ans, ou la Double fête, comedy in 3 acts and in prose, mingled with ariettes, Théâtre italien de Paris, 18 April
  • 1776: Æglé, ballet-héroïque in 1 act, presented in front of their Majesties, in Fontainebleau, 4 November
  • 1777: Matroco, drame burlesque, in 4 acts and in verse, mingled with ariettes and comédies en vaudevilles, presented in front of their Majesties, Théâtre italien de Paris
  • 1782: Le Poète supposé, ou les Préparatifs de fête, comedy in 3 acts and in prose, mingled with ariettes and comédies en vaudevilles, Théâtre italien de Paris, 25 April
  • 1790: Le Couvent, ou les Fruits du caractère et de l'éducation, comedy in 1 act and in prose, Paris, Théâtre de la Nation, 16 April
  • 1806: Le Juif bienfaisant, ou les Rapprochements difficiles, comedy in five acts and in prose, imitated from English, given in Rouen June ;Varia
  • 1776: Les À propos de la folie ou Chansons grotesques, grivoises et annonces de parade, 1776
  • 1800: Notice sur les Dîners du Caveau, published in Les Dîners du Vaudeville, Frimaire An V.
  • 1811: Œuvres choisies de P. Laujon, contenant ses pièces représentées sur nos principaux théâtres, ses fêtes publiques ou particulières, ses chansons et autres opuscules, avec des anecdotes, remarques et notices relatives à ces divers genres.

References

  • Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des littératures, Paris, Hachette, 1876, p. 1205
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