Daniel Alexis François Barrière, also called Barrière aîné, (22 October 1792 – 30 August 1865) was a 19th-century French playwright, engraver and song writer.
Biography An engraver, trained by his father, he drew a part of the campaign plans for the marshal Laurent de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr as well as maps of Swabia, Russia, Corsica or Spain and of the county Mayo.Charles Le Blanc, Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant: Un dictionnaire des graveurs, 1854, He also made prints for the library.
His plays were presented on the most famous Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre des Variétés, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, etc.
His songs were published in 1829 in the book Étrennes lyriques ou Recueil de romances et nocturnes, with piano or harpes accompagnements by Antoine Romagnesi.
Plays and songs 1813: Le Mari en vacances, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Marc-Antoine Désaugiers 1816: Trois pour une ou les absents n'ont pas toujours tort, comédie-vaudeville en 1 act, with Désaugiers 1817: La Vendange normande, ou les Deux voisins, vaudeville in 1 act, with Michel-Joseph Gentil de Chavagnac 1830: Notre Grand'mère, chansonnette 1835: Mon bonnet de nuit, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Georges Duval 1835: Oui et non, comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts 1837: Les savetiers francs-juges, chronique messinaise in 3 acts, mingled with songs 1840: Les Pages de Louis XII, comedy mingled with song, in 2 acts, with Ferdinand de Villeneuve 1842: Le poète, ou Les droits de l'auteur, comedy in 1 act and in verses 1848: L'Autel de la Patrie, hymne national, music by Félix Marie 1857: Le legs (The Legacy), comedy by Marivaux set in verses 1861: La Sainte-Catherine, ou Un bienfait n'est jamais perdu, à-propos-vaudeville in 1 act
References
Bibliography Joseph-marie Quérard, La littérature française contemporaine, vol.3, 1827-1844, Charles Gabet, Dictionnaire des artistes de l'école française au XIXe, 1831, Edwin Colby Byam, Théodore Barrière, dramatist of the second empire, 1938,