Louis-Émile Vanderburch

Louis-Émile Vanderburch was a 19th-century French writer and playwright. The painter Dominique Joseph Vanderburch was his grandfather.

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 which now houses the city hall of this town of 10,000 inhabitants.

Works

;Theatre

1835: Jacques II
1836: Le Gamin de Paris
1838: Clermont, ou Une femme d'artiste
1838: Peau d'âne
1846: Une nuit au Louvre
1854: Le Sanglier des Ardennes
1855: Le sergent Frédéric, comédie en vaudevilles

;Other

1816: L'Épingle noire
1847: Scènes contemporaines laissées par Madame la Vicomtesse de Chamilly,, 1828 collective pseudonym of François-Adolphe Loève-Veimars, Auguste Romieu and Vanderburch.
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.

Funds Vanderburch

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the Émile Vanderburch funds gathers at the Bibliothèque nationale de France personal papers, the manuscripts of 9 unpublished plays and 8 published plays, 4 collections of poetry and songs, 3 handwritten works of his youth, intimate writings, correspondence, programs, documents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