Alfred Delacour or Alfred-Charlemagne Delacour, real name Pierre-Alfred Lartigue, (3 September 1817 and not in 1815 Alfred Delacour (1815-1883): individual pseudonyme – 31 March 1883 Ville de Paris, état-civil du 9th arrondissement, registre des décès de 1883, acte n° 517.) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist.
Biography In addition to his occupation as a physician, which he practised from 1841,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). Delacour turned progressively to the theatre.François Cavaignac, La culture théâtrale à Étampes au XIXth, éditions L'Harmattan, 2007, (p. 60). He collaborated with Eugène Labiche and Clairville for several vaudevilles Jeanne Benay, L'opérette viennoise, Austriaca, n° 46, Publication Univ. Rouen Havre, 1998, (p. 159).
Titles and decorations Knight of the Legion of honour (7 August 1867 decree) His entry on the Base Léonore wrongly calls him Alfred-Charlemagne which was his pen name.
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. Aside from his collaborations with Labiche and Clairville, Delacour also worked with Lambert Thiboust on Le diable (1880), a French drama. 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). 1847: L'Hospitalité d'une grisette by Mathieu Barthélemy Thouin and Delacour 1849: E. H. by Eugène Moreau, Paul Siraudin and Delacour Bibliographic informationThis 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. 1850: Le Courrier de Lyon by Eugène Moreau, Paul Siraudin and Delacour, Théâtre de la Gaîté 1851: La fille qui trompe son mari by Eugène Moreau and Delacour 1852: Paris qui dort by Lambert-Thiboust and Delacour, Théâtre des Variétés 1855: Un bal d'auvergnats by Paul Siraudin, Delacour and Lambert-Thiboust, Théâtre du Palais-Royal 1856: La Queue de la poële by Paul Siraudin and Delacour, Théâtre du Palais-Royal 1858: Deux merles blancs by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre des Variétés 1859: Un mari à la porte by Delacour and Léon Morand, opérette in one act with music by Offenbach; Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Lacaze 1861: Les Voisins de Molinchart by Marc-Michel and Delacour 1862: Les Petits Oiseaux by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre du Vaudeville 1864: La Cagnotte by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre du Palais-Royal 1864: Le Point de mire by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre de la Cour 1864: Les Femmes sérieuses by Paul Siraudin, Alfred and Ernest Blum, Théâtre du Palais-Royal 1865: L'Homme qui manque le coche by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre des Variétés 1865: Le Voyage en Chine by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Opéra-Comique 1875: Le Procès Veauradieux by Alfred Hennequin and Delacour. 1876: Le roi dort by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre des Variétés 1876: Les Dominos roses by Alfred Hennequin and Delacour, Théâtre du Vaudeville
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)
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External links Alfred Delacour on Data.bnf.fr