Adrien Decourcelle

{{Short description|French writer and playwright}}

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| birth_date = 28 October 1821

| birth_place = Montdidier (Somme)

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1892|08|06|1821|10|28}}

| death_place = Étretat (Seine-Maritime)

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| occupation = Playwright, chansonnier

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| spouse = Caroline Lambert

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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}}