William Bertrand Busnach, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

William Bertrand Busnach

French dramatist

Date of Birth: 07-Mar-1832

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

Date of Death: 21-Jan-1907

Profession: playwright, journalist, novelist, librettist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About William Bertrand Busnach

  • William Bertrand Busnach (7 March 1832, Paris – 20 January 1907, Paris) was a French dramatist.Busnach was a nephew of the composer Fromental Halévy.
  • His father was associated with David Ben Joseph Coen Bakri, to whom France was indebted to the amount of some twenty-odd million francs for provisions furnished to Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt.
  • The lawsuit lasted for more than fifty years, and Busnach and his partner were not paid in full at the end.
  • The elder Busnach, an Algerian Jew, became a naturalised Italian in the time of the Deys, and was the first interpreter of the French army.
  • He established himself in Paris in 1835. William – an Italian Jew born in France of an Algerian father, with a German (European way of writing the Arabic name Boujnah is a more logic explanation) surname and an English given name – was at first employed in the customs department.
  • He subsequently devoted himself to dramatic work, writing many plays, a number of which have been successful.
  • They include: Les Virtuoses du Pavé, 1864; Première Fraîcheur, Paris-Revue, 1869; Héloïse et Abélard, with music by Henry Litolff, 1872; Forte en Gueule, La Liqueur d'Or, in collaboration with Armand Liorat, music by Laurent de Rillé 1873; Kosiki, with Liorat, music by Alexandre Charles Lecocq, 1876 and with Albert Vanloo Ali-Baba, 1887. In 1867 Busnach assumed the direction of the Théâtre de l'Athénée, where several of his operettas (Fleur-de-Thé, etc.) were performed.
  • His greatest successes he achieved, however, with his adaptation of celebrated novels for the stage; for example, L'Assommoir, 1881; Nana, 1882; Pot-Bouille, 1883, all by Émile Zola; Le Petit Jacques, by Jules Claretie, 1885; La Marchande des Quatre Saisons, etc.Busnach is also the author of the following novels: La Fille de M.
  • Lecoq, 1886; Le Petit Gosse, 1889; Cyprienne Guérard, 1895, etc. A chapter of Vanloo's memoirs Sur le plateau, Souvenirs d'un librettiste is about Busnach, where Vanloo described his colleague as a jovial, lively man, on close terms with all Paris, and who took delight in using strong language.
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds.
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