Adrien Decourcelle
{{Short description|French writer and playwright}}
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| death_place = Étretat (Seine-Maritime)
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Adrien Decourcelle (28 October 1821 – 6 August 1892)[http://recherche.archivesdepartementales76.net/?id=viewer&doc=accounts%2Fmnesys_ad76%2Fdatas%2Fir%2Fserie_E_seigneuries_familles_notaires_etat_civil%2FFRAD076_IR_E_etat_civil.xml&page_ref=1268335&lot_num=1&img_num=1&index_in_visu= Acte n° 66 (vue 40)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806114932/http://recherche.archivesdepartementales76.net/?id=viewer&doc=accounts%2Fmnesys_ad76%2Fdatas%2Fir%2Fserie_E_seigneuries_familles_notaires_etat_civil%2FFRAD076_IR_E_etat_civil.xml&page_ref=1268335&lot_num=1&img_num=1&index_in_visu= |date=2016-08-06 }}, registre des décès de 1892 pour la Ville d'Étretat, Archives numérisées de Seine-Maritime. was a 19th-century French writer and playwright.
Pierre-Henri-Adrien Decourcelle wrote about 70 plays between 1845 and 1855, comedies and Comédie en vaudeville written most of the time in collaboration with Théodore Barrière. He was also a successful chansonnier.{{cn|date=May 2016}}
In 1851 he married Caroline Lambert, a niece of Adolphe d'Ennery.{{cn|date=May 2016}} His son was Pierre Decourcelle (1856-1926), a playwright, novelist, president of the Société des gens de lettres and commandeur of the Légion d'honneur. Pierre Decourcelle was involved in legal disputes following Ennery's death in 1899.« [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6552548z Le Testament d'Adolphe d'Ennery] », Revue des grands procès, 1900, at Gallica.
Adrien Decourcelle is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery in the 20th arrondissement of Paris (7th division).{{cn|date=May 2016}}
Selected works
- 1848: Un vilain monsieur, play with Théodore Barrière, Théâtre des Variétés
- 1850: Les Petits Moyens, play with Eugène Labiche and Gustave Lemoine, Théâtre du Gymnase
- 1895: La Belle Épicière, operetta with Henri Kéroul, music by Louis Varney, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens
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Bibliography
- Domenico Gabrielli, Dictionnaire historique du cimetière du Père-Lachaise (XVIIIe – XIXe siècles), Paris, éd. de l'Amateur, 2002, {{p.|110}}.
- Revue d'art dramatique, tome 27, 1892, (p. 248).
External links
- [http://www.artlyriquefr.fr/personnages/Decourcelle%20Adrien.html Adrien Decourcelle] sur artlyriquefr.fr
- [http://data.bnf.fr/12156923/adrien_decourcelle/ Adrien Decourcelle] on {{Interlanguage link multi|Data.bnf.fr|fr}}
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Category:19th-century French dramatists and playwrights