Louis-Émile Vanderburch

Louis-Émile Vanderburch (30 September 1794 – 30 March 1862) was a 19th-century French writer and playwright. The painter Dominique Joseph Vanderburch (1722–1785) was his grandfather.

Louis-Émile Vanderburch
Born	30 September 1794 Paris
Died	30 March 1862(1862-03-30) (aged 67) Rueil-Malmaison
Occupation(s)	Writer, playwright

Biography

After he started a career in teaching as a professor of history, Vanderburch turned to literature and more specifically to theatre. From 1816, he authored more than a hundred theatre plays, some of which were met with great success.

From 1836 to 1853, he lived in the Petit château of La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin (Loiret) which now houses the city hall of this town of 10,000 inhabitants.^[1]

Works

Theatre (selection)

• 1835: Jacques II^[2]
• 1836: Le Gamin de Paris
• 1838: Clermont, ou Une femme d'artiste (with Eugène Scribe)
• 1846: Une nuit au Louvre
• 1854: Le Sanglier des Ardennes
• 1855: Le sergent Frédéric, comédie en vaudevilles (with Dumanoir)
• 1863: Peau d'âne

Other

• 1816: L'Épingle noire
• 1847: Scènes contemporaines laissées par Madame la Vicomtesse de Chamilly, Urbain Canel [fr], 1828 collective pseudonym of François-Adolphe Loève-Veimars, Auguste Romieu and Vanderburch.^[3]
• 1832: Souvenirs de France, d'Écosse et d'Angleterre pendant les règnes de François I, Henri II, François II, Marie Stuart et Elisabeth.
• 1841-1843: Le Gamin de Paris à Alger.
• 1851: Histoire militaire des Français. À l'usage des écoles régimentaires et des écoles communales.

Bibliography

• Émile Chevalet, Les 365. Annuaire de la littérature et des auteurs contemporains, 1858.^[4]
• Charles Vander-Burch Fils, Biographie d'un homme de lettres, Imprimerie veuve Théolier Ainé et Cie, In-8°, 19 pages, Saint-Etienne, 1863, published by the Bnf, available Here

Funds Vanderburch

From a gift of Philippe Collin, his great-nephew, the Émile Vanderburch funds gathers at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Department of Performing Arts) personal papers, the manuscripts of 9 unpublished plays and 8 published plays, 4 collections of poetry and songs, 3 handwritten works of his youth, intimate writings, correspondence, programs, documents related to his theatrical activity and press articles.