Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson, known as Delestre-Poirson (22 August
1790, in Paris â€" 19 November 1859) was a French playwright and
theatre director.Delestre-Poirson was the director of the Gymnase
dramatique, from 1820 to 1844 ; his resistance to the decisions taken
by the Société des auteurs dramatiques provoked part of the SACD to
boycott using that theatre for 2 years. This conflict, in which only
Narcisse Fournier remained loyal to Delestre-Poirson, led in the end
to Delestre-Poirson's retirement.Delestre-Poirson is to be credited
with the discovery of all the parts Rachel could play thanks to her
deep and penetrating voice, her noble bearing and heroic fits of
anger, thus bringing about a renaissance in French classical tragedy,
which had been in decline and which Delestre-Poirson thus
rejuvenated.He wrote several comedies, alone (e.g. Le Fat en province
ou Le plan de comédie, a 3-act comedy ; Inès et Pédrille ou La
cousine supposée, a 3-act comedy ; Spectacle demandé ou Rien qu'en
famille, a one-act divertissement "mêlée de couplets" ; Les Anglais
supposés ou Lequel est mon gendre ?, at Théâtre de la Porte
Saint-Martin, 1815), or in collaboration with Eugène Scribe and
Mélesville (such as La Petite Pinson ou Une nuit à Beaune, a one-act
folie-vaudeville, with Mélesville, put on at the Théâtre des
Variétés from 20 February 1819). He also wrote a novel, Un Ladre,
récit d’un vieux professeur émérite (Paris, Lenormant, 1859), a
touching and moral book whose excellent intentions excuse its
implausibility.
1790, in Paris â€" 19 November 1859) was a French playwright and
theatre director.Delestre-Poirson was the director of the Gymnase
dramatique, from 1820 to 1844 ; his resistance to the decisions taken
by the Société des auteurs dramatiques provoked part of the SACD to
boycott using that theatre for 2 years. This conflict, in which only
Narcisse Fournier remained loyal to Delestre-Poirson, led in the end
to Delestre-Poirson's retirement.Delestre-Poirson is to be credited
with the discovery of all the parts Rachel could play thanks to her
deep and penetrating voice, her noble bearing and heroic fits of
anger, thus bringing about a renaissance in French classical tragedy,
which had been in decline and which Delestre-Poirson thus
rejuvenated.He wrote several comedies, alone (e.g. Le Fat en province
ou Le plan de comédie, a 3-act comedy ; Inès et Pédrille ou La
cousine supposée, a 3-act comedy ; Spectacle demandé ou Rien qu'en
famille, a one-act divertissement "mêlée de couplets" ; Les Anglais
supposés ou Lequel est mon gendre ?, at Théâtre de la Porte
Saint-Martin, 1815), or in collaboration with Eugène Scribe and
Mélesville (such as La Petite Pinson ou Une nuit à Beaune, a one-act
folie-vaudeville, with Mélesville, put on at the Théâtre des
Variétés from 20 February 1819). He also wrote a novel, Un Ladre,
récit d’un vieux professeur émérite (Paris, Lenormant, 1859), a
touching and moral book whose excellent intentions excuse its
implausibility.
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