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Armand Lapointe
French novelist, journalist and playwright (1822–1910) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Armand Lapointe (1 May 1822 [1][2][3] – 6 March 1910 [4][5][6][7][8]) was a French novelist, journalist and playwright. He also wrote the libretto of the opérette bouffe Mesdames de la Halle by Jacques Offenbach.
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Biography
He was a prolific popular author in the years 1850–1890 and still obviously remembered at the time of his death.[9]
During the Second French Empire, his comedies were given in Paris, at the Théâtre des Variétés and his opéra bouffe was produced at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens. From 1860, Lapointe was devoted mainly to writing novels. He was a friend of Gustave Aimard, with whom he would attend the Goguette du Poulet sauté.
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Works
- 1852: La Course à la veuve, folie-vaudeville en 1 act
- 1853: Les Drames du foyer, with F. de Reiffenberg fils
- 1853: Les moustaches grises, vaudeville in 1 act, with Achille Bourdois and Émile Colliot
- 1853: Le mari par régime, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Bourdois and Colliot
- 1853: Mélez-vous de vos affaires, vaudeville in 1 act, with Bourdois and Colliot)
- 1854: Un provincial qui se forme, comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Colliot and H. Mareuge, Beck
- 1854: A la recherche d'un million, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Colliot and H. Mareuge, Beck
- 1857: Le Bazar européen, revue-vaudeville in 1 act
- 1857: Avez-vous besoin d'argent ?, parody of La Question d'argent, with Paul Siraudin and Bourdois
- 1858: Dalila et Samson, histoire en 5 feuillets, mixed with distincts, with Eugène Grangé
- 1858: Faust et Framboisy, drame burlesque in 3 acts and 11 tableaux, with Bourdois
- 1858: Mesdames de la Halle, opéra bouffe in 1 act, music by Jacques Offenbach, with Josef Heinzelmann
- 1859: Les deux maniaques, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Colliot and Adolphe Choler
- 1859: Les Dames de Coeur-Volant, opéra bouffe in 1 act, with Bourdois
- 1860: Les Parisiennes. La comtesse Jeanne,
- 1860: Voyage à la recherche du bonheur, (in Le Musée des familles, issue 15)
- 1868: La dernière douairière, (published as a serial)
- 1870: Les flibustiers du grand monde
- 1875: La vie parisienne
- 1876: La chasse aux fantômes
- 1878: Les déserts africains : aventures extraordinaires d'un homme, d'un singe et d'un éléphant, with Henri de Montaut
- 1878: Les rivalités : le docteur Jacques Hervey
- 1879: Bataille d'amoureuses
- 1880: Reine du faubourg
- 1881: Reine coquette
- 1881: L'abandonnée, (published as a serial in Le Petit Parisien in 1877)
- 1882: Le cousin César, (foreword by Jules Claretie)
- 1884: Feu Robert-Bey
- 1884: La princesse : roman parisien
- 1884: Le roman d'un médecin,
- 1885: Madame Margaret : histoire parisienne, Plon
- 1886: L'enjôleuse
- 1886: Les galères de l'amour
- 1887: Les Mémoires de Valentin
- 1888: La fille repentie
- 1888: Reine de nuit
- 1889: Les étoiles filantes, roman parisien
- 1889: Le Don Quichotte de la mer, aventures de terre et de mer
- 1894: Petite guerre, comédie de salon in 1 act
- 1896: Les sept hommes rouges
- 1901: Le fils du Boër
- Le bonhomme misère, Plon
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References
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