Édouard-Joseph-Ennemond Mazères (11 September 1796, Paris – 19 March 1866, Paris) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist.
Biography A son of a French colonist of Saint-Domingue, he studied in Paris then joined the army. Lieutenant of infantry, he resigned in 1820 to concentrate on literature. He became Charles X's lecturer but had to leave the post during the July Revolution. In 1832, he was raised to the position of sous-préfet of Saint-Denis, then prefect of Ariège (1835), Aveyron (1837), Haute-Saône (1839) and Cher (1847–1848).
His plays, many of which he wrote with Eugène Scribe, were performed on the most important stages of the Parisian theatre of the 19th century: Théâtre du Gymnase, Théâtre de Madame, Théâtre de l'Odéon, Comédie-Française, Théâtre du Vaudeville, etc.
Works
1821: L'Album, comedy vaudeville in 1 act, with Louis-Benoît Picard 1821: Un jour a Rome, ou Le jeune homme en loterie, with G. de Lurieu 1821: Monsieur M. Sensible, comedy vaudeville in 1 act 1821: Le Panorama d'Athènes, tableau in couplets 1822: L'Amateur à la porte, ou la Place du Louvre, vaudeville in 1 act 1822: Le Notaire, comedy-vaudeville in 1 act 1822: Une heure de veuvage, comedy-vaudeville 1823: La loge du portier, comedy-vaudeville, with Scribe 1823: Rossini à Paris, ou Le grand dîner, à propos-vaudeville in 1 act, with Scribe 1823: Le bureau de la Loterie, comedy-vaudeville in 1 act, with 1823: La Vérité dans le vin, comedy-vaudeville in 1 act, with Scribe 1824: Le coiffeur et le perruquier, vaudeville in 1 act, with Charles Nombret Saint-Laurent and Eugène Scribe 1824: L'Enfant trouvé, comedy in 3 acts, with Picard 1824: Les Petites saturnales, comedy in 1 act, mixed with couplets 1825: Le landau ou L'hospitalité, comedy-vaudeville in 1 act, with Picard 1825: Le Charlatanisme, comedy-vaudeville, with Scribe 1825: Les Arrangeuses, ou les Pièces mises en pièces, folie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Nicolas Gersin and Gabriel de Lurieu 1825: L'éligible, comedy in 1 act, with G. de Lurieu et Thomas Sauvage 1825: La Quarantaine, comedy vaudeville 1826: La Coutume allemande, ou les Vacances, comedy vaudeville in 1 act 1826: La Demoiselle de compagnie, comedy-vaudeville in 1 act, with Picard 1826: La Fin du mois, comedy-vaudeville in 1 act 1826: Héritage et mariage, comedy in 3 acts, with Picard 1826: Le jeune mari, comedy in 3 acts 1827: Le loup-garou, with Scribe, opéra comique by Louise Bertin in 1 act 1827: Les trois quartiers, comedie in 3 acts, with Picard 1828: Chacun de son coté, comedy in 3 acts 1828: Les Éphémères, tragi-comedy in 3 acts in prose, preceded with a prologue and followed with an epilogue, with Picard 1828: L'Espion, drama in five acts, with Jacques-Arsène-François-Polycarpe Ancelot 1828: L'oncle d'Amérique, comedy-vaudeville, with Scribe 1829: Le Bon garçon, comedy in 3 acts in prose, with Picard 1830: La Dame et la demoiselle, comedy in 4 acts in prose, with Adolphe-Simonis Empis 1830: La mère et la fille, comedy in 5 acts, with Empis 1830: Vatel ou le petit fils d'un grand homme, comedy vaudeville in 1 act, with Scribe 1831: Un changement de ministère, comedy in 5 acts and in prose, with Empis 1834: Une liaison, 5-act comedy, with Empis 1849: L'Amitié des femmes, 3-act comedy, in prose 1851: Le collier de perles, 3-act comedy 1854: La Niaise, 4-act comedy
Distinction Officer of the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur, 17 October 1832.
Bibliography Charles Dezobry, Théodore Bachelet, Dictionnaire général de biographie et d'histoire, 1869, p. 2953 Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, vol. 2, 1870, p. 1239 Joseph Marie Quérard, Antoine Alexandre Barbier, Les supercheries littéraires dévoilées, 1874, p. 139 Ferdinand Natanael Staaff, La littérature française depuis la formation de la langue jusqu'à nos jours, vol. 2, 1878, p. 1065 Patrick Berthier, Le théâtre au XIXe siècle, 1986, p. 78
External links "Édouard-Joseph-Ennemond Mazères", Bibliothèque nationale de France