Roger-Timothée Régnard de Pleinchesne
Roger-Timothée Régnard[1] de Pleinchesne was an 18th-century French playwright.
A former infantry captain and governor of the king's pages, Régnard of Pleinchesne wrote some dramas he presented from 1765 to 1810. He also founded, in 1781, a facility in the foire Saint-Laurent called the Redoute chinoise, which gathered in the same room various kinds of entertainment, for 30 sols, in order to attract a good company in his venue where there were games of all kinds, ring, roller, wheel fortune and swings. When this kind of distraction was exhausted, the public could indulge in the charms of a fun ride in a beautiful garden where real street singers performed the most recent songs. A café, a restaurant and a dance room amenities complemented the Redoute chinoise.
Works
- Le Charbonnier est maître chez lui, ou la Partie de chasse, pantomime (Paris 1775)
- Le Malentendu, French comedy in the Italian genre in 3 acts, given at the Comédie-Italienne in Paris
- La Vérité, two-act comedy, écrite à la louange du roi et de la reine
- Le Prince Tiri, id.
- Le Fanfaron, id.
- Le B*** tiré, opéra comique
- L'Épreuve de Marivaux, opéra comique
- L'Heureux Engagement, one-act opéra comique
- Le Bon Médecin, five-act opéra comique
- Berthe, comédie héroï-pastorale in three acts and in verse, mingled with ariettes presented at the théâtre de Bruxelles Decembre 1774
- La Guinguette, ambigu-comique
- Le Degré des âges
- Le Jardinier de Sidon, two-act comedy, mingled with ariettes, Comédiens italiens, 18 July 1768
- Le Mariage par exemple ou les Époux à l’épreuve, one-act comedy.
References
- Ou Regnard.
Sources
- Émile Campardon, Les Spectacles de la foire, Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1877, p. 304
- Frédéric Faber, Histoire du théâtre français en Belgique depuis son origine jusqu'à nos jours, t. 2, Bruxelles, Fr. J. Olivier, 1879 p. 86