Philippe François Pinel (), known as Dumanoir (; 31 July 1806 – 16 November 1865), was a French playwright and librettist.
Biography Dumanoir was born in Capesterre-Belle-Eau, Guadeloupe. He was the son of Mrs. Pinel-Dumanoir, whose family planted the palm trees lining the Allée Dumanoir in Guadeloupe. He left Guadeloupe in 1816. Dumanoir wrote in the theatrical genre of Comédie en vaudevilles. He was director of the Théâtre des Variétés from 1837 to 1839. In 1844, he wrote in collaboration with Adolphe d'Ennery, an eponymous drama about Don César de Bazan, one of the characters in Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo.
He died in Pau.
List of major works
Plays 1842: Le Chevalier d'Éon, comedy in 3 acts, (with Jean-François Bayard), Théâtre des Variétés 1839: Les Premières Armes de Richelieu (with Jean-François Bayard), Théâtre du Palais Royal 1840: Indiana et Charlemagne (with Jean-François Bayard), Théâtre du Palais Royal 1842: Ma maîtresse et ma femme, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, (with Adolphe d'Ennery), Théâtre des Variétés 1843: Les Hures-Graves (with Clairville and Paul Siraudin), Théâtre du Palais Royal 1844: (with Adolphe d'Ennery), Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin 1845: Le Code des femmes, Théâtre du Palais Royal 1846: Gentil-Bernard ou L'Art d'aimer (with Clairville), Théâtre des Variétés 1849: , comédie en vaudevilles in 3 acts (with Eugène Labiche and Clairville), Théâtre du Palais Royal 1853: La Case de l'oncle Tom, (with Adolphe d'Ennery), Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique 1857: Les Bourgeois gentilshommes, comedy in 3 acts, in prose, Théâtre du Gymnase 1862: Les Invalides du mariage, comedy in 3 acts (with Lafargue), Théâtre du Gymnase
Opera and ballet 1840: La Perruche, opéra-comique in 1 act (with Louis Clapisson and Henri Dupin) 1840: Grisélidis ballet by Adolphe Adam 1845: Maritana, opera by William Vincent Wallace (based on the play Don César de Bazan) 1862: La Chatte merveilleuse, opera by Albert Grisar, libretto written with Adolphe d'Ennery (1811-1899) 1863: La Mule de Pédro, opera by Victor Massé 1872: Don César de Bazan, opera by Jules Massenet (based on the play Don César de Bazan)
Filmography Don Caesar de Bazan, directed by Robert G. Vignola (1915, based on the play Don César de Bazan) Don Cesar, Count of Irun, directed by Luise Kolm and Jacob Fleck (Austria, 1918, based on the play Don César de Bazan) The Adventurer, directed by J. Gordon Edwards (1920, based on the play Don César de Bazan) Rosita, directed by Ernst Lubitsch (1923, based on the play Don César de Bazan) The Spanish Dancer, directed by Herbert Brenon (1923, based on the play Don César de Bazan) Don Cesare di Bazan, directed by Riccardo Freda (Italy, 1942, based on the play Don César de Bazan) The Seventh Sword, directed by Riccardo Freda (Italy, 1962, based on the play Don César de Bazan)
Decorations – Officer of the Legion of Honour 14 August 1965
References
Sources American-Cyclopaedia-Pinel
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