Theodore Barrière (
1823—
1877),
French dramatist, was born in
Paris in
1823. He belonged to a family map engravers which had long been connected with the war department, and spent nine years in that service himself. The success of a
vaudeville he had performed at the
Beaumarchais and which was immediately snapped up for the repertory of the
Palais Royal[?], showed him his real vocation. During the next thirty years he signed, alone or in collaboration, over a hundred plays; among the most successful were:
- La Vie de bohème (1849), adapted from Henri Murger[?]’s book with the novelist’s help
- Manon Lescaut (1851)
- Les Filles de marbre (1853)
- L’Héritage de Monsieur Plumet (1858)
- Les Faux Bonshommes (1856) with Ernest Capendu[?]
- Malheureux vaincus (1865), which was forbidden by the censor
- Le Gascon (1878).
Barrière died in Paris on October 16, 1877.
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