Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson

French playwright and theatre director

Date of Birth: 22-Aug-1790

Place of Birth: Paris, ĂŽle-de-France, France

Date of Death: 19-Nov-1859

Profession: playwright, theater director, librettist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson

  • Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson, known as Delestre-Poirson (22 August 1790, in Paris – 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 SociĂ©tĂ© 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 comĂ©die, a 3-act comedy ; Inès et PĂ©drille ou La cousine supposĂ©e, a 3-act comedy ; Spectacle demandĂ© ou Rien qu'en famille, a one-act divertissement "mĂŞlĂ©e de couplets" ; Les Anglais supposĂ©s ou Lequel est mon gendre ?, at Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 1815), or in collaboration with Eugène Scribe and MĂ©lesville (such as La Petite Pinson ou Une nuit Ă  Beaune, a one-act folie-vaudeville, with MĂ©lesville, put on at the Théâtre des VariĂ©tĂ©s from 20 February 1819).
  • He also wrote a novel, Un Ladre, rĂ©cit d’un vieux professeur Ă©mĂ©rite (Paris, Lenormant, 1859), a touching and moral book whose excellent intentions excuse its implausibility.

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