Adolphe Belot


Louis Marc Adolphe Belot was a French playwright and novelist. He was born on 6 November 1829 in Pointe-à-Pitre, and died on 18 December 1890 in Paris, France.

Biography

Adolphe Belot was the son of an attorney employed by the Pointe-à-Pitre court, who had been born in Le Havre, France. Adolphe Belot was educated at the prestigious Collège Sainte-Barbe in metropolitan France and went on to obtain his degree at the Faculty of Law in Paris. In 1854, he was registered at the law society in Nancy.
After several trips to the Americas, he devoted himself to writing, publishing Le Châtiment in 1855 before approaching the theater with the comedy À la Campagne in 1857. In 1859, in collaboration with Charles Edmond Villetard de Prunières, he wrote Le Testament de César Girodot, a show which was performed over 500 times at the Odéon theater.
Belot wrote the novel Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife in 1870, centered around a naive young man and his eponymous wife who refuses to consummate their marriage. The book was an immense success, selling at least 66,000 copies and has been published in 33 editions around the world.
Belot died of pulmonary congestion at the age of 61, on 18 December 1890.
Belot fathered two daughters: Marthe and Jeanne, the latter of which became an actress at the Odéon theatre under the pseudonym of "Miss Belly". She died of typhoid fever in January 1899.

Theater works

  • 1859 Un Secret de Famille, 5 acts, Théâtre de l'Ambigu
  • 1860 La Vengeance du Mari, 3 acts, Théâtre de l'Odéon
  • 1861 Les Parents Terribles, 3 acts, a collaboration with, Théâtre de l'Odéon
  • 1862 Les Maris à Système, 3 acts, Théâtre du Gymnase
  • 1862 Le Vrai Courage, 2 acts, Théâtre du Vaudeville
  • 1863 Les Indifférents, 4 acts, Théâtre de l'Odéon
  • 1865 Le Passé de M. Jouanne, 4 acts, a collaboration with Henri Crisafulli, Théâtre du Gymnase
  • 1865 L’Habitude et le Souvenir, 4 acts, Théâtre du Vaudeville
  • 1867 La Vénus de Gordes, with Ernest Daudet
  • 1867 Les Souvenirs, 4 acts, Théâtre du Vaudeville
  • 1868 Le Drame de la Rue de la Paix, 5 acts, Théâtre de l'Odéon
  • 1868 Miss Multon, 3 acts, with, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 150 shows
  • 1869 La Leçon du Jour, 4 acts, with Eugène Nus, Théâtre du Vaudeville
  • 1871 L’Article 47, 5 acts, Théâtre de l’Ambigu, 100 shows
  • 1873 La Marquise, 4 acts, with Eugène Nus, Théatre du Gymnase
  • 1876 Fromont Jeune et Risler Aîné, 5 acts,, Théâtre du Vaudeville
  • 1880 Les Étrangleurs de Paris, a drama in 5 acts and 12 scenes, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin
  • 1885 Sapho, 5 acts,, Théâtre du Gymnase;

Short stories and novels

  • "Un Cas de Conscience"
  • Le Secret Terrible, a collaboration with, Dentu, Paris
  • Le Parricide, a collaboration with Jules Dautin, Dentu, Paris
  • Dacolard et Lubin, a collaboration with Jules Dautin, Dentu, Paris
  • La Sultane Parisienne, Dentu, Paris
  • Nouvelles, 1857
  • Trois nouvelles, 1863
  • La Vénus de Gordes, a collaboration with Ernest Daudet, 1866
  • Le Drame de la Rue de la Paix, Michel Lévy frères, Paris, 1867
  • L'Article 47, Dentu, Paris, 1870
  • Mademoiselle Giraud, ma femme, 1870
  • La Femme de feu, 1872
  • Hélène et Mathilde, 1874
  • Les Mystères Mondains, 1875

Awards and honors

  • Legion of Honour - 1867.