Auguste Duport

{{Short description|French playwright (1777–1843)}}

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| birth_date = 22 January 1777

| birth_place = Paris

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Auguste Duport, full name François Auguste Duport, (22 January 1777 – 5 September 1843) was a French playwright.

Originally a carpenter, he embraced literature and his plays were performed at the Théâtre du Gymnase dramatique, at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique and at the Théâtre-Français.

Selected works

  • 1820: Le Frère Philippe, opéra comique in one act, with Victor Dourlen
  • 1824: Le Beau-frère, ou la Veuve à deux maris, comédie-vaudeville in one act, with Paul Duport and Amable de Saint-Hilaire,
  • 1824: Une journée de Charles V, comédie in one act and in prose, with P. Duport
  • 1834: Le Marchand forain, opéra-comique in three acte, with Eugène Planard

Bibliography

  • Annuaire dramatique de la Belgique, volumes 5 à 6, 1843 (obituary) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=EkUPAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Auguste+Duport%22+1843&pg=RA1-PA176 Read online])

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Category:19th-century French dramatists and playwrights

Category:French librettists

Category:Writers from Paris

Category:1777 births

Category:1843 deaths

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