Adrien Decourcelle (28 October 1821 – 6 August 1892)Acte n° 66 (vue 40) , registre des décès de 1892 pour la Ville d'Étretat, Archives numérisées de Seine-Maritime. was a 19th-century French writer and playwright.
Pierre-Henri-Adrien Decourcelle wrote about 70 plays between 1845 and 1855, comedies and Comédie en vaudeville written most of the time in collaboration with Théodore Barrière. He was also a successful chansonnier.
In 1851 he married Caroline Lambert, a niece of Adolphe d'Ennery. His son was Pierre Decourcelle (1856-1926), a playwright, novelist, president of the Société des gens de lettres and commandeur of the Légion d'honneur. Pierre Decourcelle was involved in legal disputes following Ennery's death in 1899.« Le Testament d'Adolphe d'Ennery », Revue des grands procès, 1900, at Gallica.
Adrien Decourcelle is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery in the 20th arrondissement of Paris (7th division).
Selected works 1848: Un vilain monsieur, play with Théodore Barrière, Théâtre des Variétés 1850: Les Petits Moyens, play with Eugène Labiche and Gustave Lemoine, Théâtre du Gymnase 1895: La Belle Épicière, operetta with Henri Kéroul, music by Louis Varney, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens
Distinctions Chevalier of the Légion d'honneurBase Léonore.
References
Bibliography Domenico Gabrielli, Dictionnaire historique du cimetière du Père-Lachaise (XVIIIe – XIXe siècles), Paris, éd. de l'Amateur, 2002, . Revue d'art dramatique, tome 27, 1892, (p. 248).
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