Charles Henry Charlot de Courcy (22 August 1834Fichier des naissances de la Ville de Paris, fiche n° 18/51. Archives en ligne de la Ville de Paris, état-civil reconstitué. – 12 December 1917Courrier des théâtres : Nécrologie. Le Figaro, 15 décembre 1917, p. 3, .) was a 19th-century French dramatist and journalist.
He was the son of dramatist, poet and chansonnier Frédéric de Courcy (1796–1862).
A journalist at L'Illustration, his plays were presented, among others, at the Théâtre du Gymnase, the Théâtre de l'Odéon, the Théâtre du Vaudeville and the Comédie-française.
Works 1853: Un Merlan en bonne fortune, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Charles Labie and Varin 1853: La Pompadour des Porcherons, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Labie 1858: Entre Hommes, pochade in 1 acte, mingled with couplets 1860: Daniel Lambert, drama in 5 acts, en prose 1861: Les Histoires du café de Paris, Michel Lévy 1861: Le Chemin le plus long, comedy in 3 acts, in prose 1862: Diane de Valneuil, comedy in 5 acts, in prose 1865: La Marieuse, comedy in 2 acts, with Lambert-Thiboust 1872: Les Vieilles Filles, comedy in 5 acts, in prose, with Victorien Sardou 1876: Andrette, comedy in 1 act, in prose 1876: Mademoiselle Didier, 4-act play, in prose, with Eugène Nus 1881: Madame de Navaret, 3-act play, with Eugène Nus 1882: Un mari malgré lui, 1-act comedy, with E. Nus 1883: Toujours !, 1 act comedy 1890: Une Conversion, 1-act comedy, in prose
Bibliography Pierre Larousse, Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, 1866, (p. 281) Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, 1870, (p. 497) Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt, Journal; Mémoires de la Vie Littéraire: 1891-1896, 1956, (p. 1077)
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External links Charles de Courcy on data.bnf.fr