Gabriel-Alexandre Belle

Gabriel-Alexandre Belle (4 March 1782 – 20 October 1855) was a 19th-century French writer and playwright. Belle was honoured by being made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.[1]

Gabriel-Alexandre Belle
Born4 March 1782
Paris
Died20 October 1855(1855-10-20) (aged 73)
Paris
OccupationPlaywright, writer

Biography

A former commissioner of war, a member of the Soupers de Momus, an editor at the La Nouveauté newspaper, Director of the magazine Discours prononcé à la séance publique de la Société académique des Enfans d'Apollon, his plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Théâtre de la Gaîté, Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre des Variétés etc.

Works
  • 1807: La paix ou l'heureux retour, vaudeville in 1 act, with Paul Ledoux
  • 1811: Ode, stances et pot-pourri sur la naissance de S. M. le Roi de Rome
  • 1817: Femme à vendre, ou le Marché écossais, folie in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Paul Gentilhomme
  • 1818: Crillon et Bussy d'Amboise, historical fact in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with Gentilhomme
  • 1818: M. Sans-Souci, ou le Peintre en prison, comedy in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with Paul Ledoux
  • 1818: Le Retour à Valenciennes, ou Rentrons chez nous, vaudeville in 1 act, with Armand Gouffé
  • 1818: Karabi, ou l'île des piqures, vaudeville, with Gouffé
  • 1819: Le Hussard et le Tambour, vaudeville, with Petit-maitre
  • 1820: Monsieur Fougères, ou le Peintre du Marché-aux-Fleurs, vaudeville, with Gouffé
  • 1821: Le fruit défendu, one-act vaudeville, with François-Pierre-Auguste Léger
  • 1821: Les Voleurs supposés, one-act comédie en vaudevilles , with W. Lafontaine and Mélesville
  • 1821: Le Bureau des nourrices, folie in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with Frédéric Dupetit-Méré
  • 1822: Amour et Caprice, vaudeville, with W. Lafontaine
  • 1822: Les Dames Martin, ou le Mari, la femme et la veuve, one-act comédie en vaudevilles, with W. Lafontaine and Henri de Tully
  • 1823: La Caserne, ou le Changement de garnison, tableau militaire in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with Paul Ledoux
  • 1824: La Fille du commissaire, vaudeville, with B. Antier
  • 1824: Le Roi René, ou la Provence au 15e siècle, two-act opéra comique, with Sewrin
  • 1824: La Tante et la nièce, ou C'était moi, one-act comédie en vaudevilles, with Gouffé
  • 1825: Le Point d'honneur, vaudeville in 1 act from the Contes by Adrien de Sarrasin, with Benjamin Antier
  • 1828: La Circulaire, comedy in 1 act and in prose, with Jacques-André Jacquelin

Bibliography
  • Joseph-Marie Quérard, La littérature française contemporaine: XIXth century, vol.1, 1842, (p. 248-249)
  • Paul Chéron, Catalogue général de la librairie française au XIXth century, 1856, (p. 713)

References
  1. "Annuaires des titulaires de la Légion d'honneur". Patrimoine de France (in French). Archived from the original on 26 April 2006. Retrieved 26 Apr 2006.
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