Michel Delaporte
Pierre Michel Delaporte was a 19th-century French playwright, painter, lithographer and political caricaturist.
Biography
He was educated in Amiens and in 1824 became a student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault. After he suffered from an eye disease, he was forced to give up painting and thus turned to writing.
His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century including the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, and the Théâtre des Variétés.
He also created numerous lithographies, illustrations and prints which were published in many newspapers and magazines, such as La Caricature (1830–1843) or Le Figaro.
Works
La Fille de l'air dans son ménage, vaudeville-féerie in 1 act, with Honoré, 1837Le Cousin du Pérou, comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Lubize and Théodore Muret, 1837Le Parisien, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, 1837Argentine, comedy in 2 acts, mingled with couplets, with Charles Dupeuty and Gabriel de Lurieu, 1839L'Amour d'un ouvrier, drame-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Hippolyte Lévesque, 1839La Bergère d'Ivry, drame-vaudeville in 5 acts, with de Lurieu, 1839L'Argent, la gloire et les femmes, vaudeville extravaganza, in 4 acts and 5 tableaux, with the Cogniard brothers, 1840L'Andalouse de Paris, vaudeville in 1 act, with Louis Bergeron, 1840La Mère Godichon, vaudeville in 3 acts, with Lubize, 1840Job l'afficheur, vaudeville in 2 acts, with the Cogniard brothers, 1840Pile ou face, vaudeville in 2 acts, with Lubize, 1840Les Amours de Psyché, fantasie play, mingled with song, in 3 acts and 10 tableaux; preceded by l'Olympe, prologue, with Charles Dupeuty, 1841Un Premier ténor, folie-vaudeville in 1 act, 1841Les Comédiens et les marionnettes, vaudeville in 2 acts, with Dupeuty, 1842Un Ménage de garçon, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Laurençot, 1842Colin-Tampon, vaudeville in 1 act, with Adolphe d'Ennery, 1844Estelle et Némorin, pastorale bouffonne in 2 acts, mingled with songs, with Charles Potier, 1844Un Tribunal de femmes, vaudeville in 1 act, with Laurençot, 1844Le Diable à quatre, vaudeville-féerie in 3 acts, with Ernest Jaime, 1845Les Amours de Monsieur et Madame Denis, comédie vaudeville in 2 acts, with Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, 1845Cabrion ! ou les Infortunes de Pipelet, folie-vaudeville in 1 act, 1845La Fille à Nicolas, comédie-vaudeville in 3 acts, with Laurençot, 1845La Samaritaine, vaudeville in 1 act, with de Lurieu, 1845Henri IV, drame historique in 3 acts, 16 tableaux and prologue, with Amable de Saint-Hilaire, 1846La Nouvelle Héloïse, drama in 3 acts, mingled with song, with Jacques-François Ancelot, 1846Ah ! que l'amour est agréable !, vaudeville in 5 tableaux, with Hippolyte-Jules Demolière and Charles Henri Ladislas Laurençot, 1847Les Femmes de Paris, ou l'Homme de loisir, drama in 5 acts, in prose, preceded by Un duel sans témoins, prologue, with Virginie Ancelot, 1848Chodruc-Duclos, ou l'Homme à la longue barbe, melodrama in 5 acts and 8 tableaux, with Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaez, 1850L'Île des bêtises, vaudeville-revue of the year 1849, in 3 acts and 5 tableaux, with Honoré, 1850Le Raisin malade, folie fantastique in 1 act, mingled with couplets, 1850Les Quenouilles de verre, féerie-vaudeville in 3 acts and 8 tableaux, with Maurice Alhoy, 1851La Femme de ménage, ou la Tabatière de Polichinelle, vaudeville in 1 act, 1851La Course au plaisir, revue de 1851, in 2 acts and 3 tableaux, with Gaston de Montheau and Théodore Muret, 1851Les Reines des bals publics, folie-vaudeville in 1 act, with de Montheau, 1852La Fille de Madame Grégoire, vaudeville in 1 act, with de Montheau, 1853Un Moyen dangereux, comedy in 1 act, mingled with song, with Jean-François-Alfred Bayard, 1854Les Papillons et la chandelle, vaudeville in 1 act, 1854Le Bois de Boulogne, revue-féerique, mingled with couplets, in 2 acts and 5 tableaux, with Paul Duport, 1855Le Cousin du Roi, comedy in 2 acts, mingled with couplets, with Laurencin, 1855Toinette et son carabinier, croquis musical in 1 act, 1856Le Billet de faveur, comédie-vaudevilles in 3 acts, with Laurecin and Eugène Cormon, 1856Le Marquis d'Argentcourt, comédie-vaudeville in 3 acts, with Dupeuty, 1857Rose la fruitière, vaudeville in 3 acts, 1857Méphistophélès, saynète musicale, 1858La Nouvelle Hermione, comedy mingled with couplets, in 1 act, with Laurencin, 1858Il n'y a plus de grisettes !, vaudeville in 1 act, with Laurencin, 1859Le Masque de velours, vaudeville in 2 acts, 1859Les Trois fils de Cadet-Roussel, comédie-vaudeville in 3 acts, with Laurencin and Charles Varin, 1860Ah ! Que l'amour est agréable !, vaudeville in 5 acts, with Varin, 1860Un Hercule et une jolie femme, vaudeville in 1 act, with Varin, 1861Ma sœur Mirette, comedy in 2 acts, mingled with song, with Varin, 1861L'Auteur de la pièce, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Varin, 1862Monsieur et Madame Denis, opéra comique in 1 act, with Laurencin, music by Jacques Offenbach, 1862La Comtesse Mimi, comedy in 3 acts, with Varin, 1862Un Ténor pour tout faire !, opérette in 1 act, with Varin, 1863Une Femme qui bat son gendre, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Varin, 1864Une Femme, un melon et un horloger !, vaudeville in 1 act, with Varin, 1864Les Ficelles de Montempoivre, vaudeville in 3 acts, with Varin, 1864Les Filles mal gardées, comedy in 3 acts, with Varin, 1865Le Sommeil de l'innocence, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Varin, 1865La Bande noire, drama in 7 acts, with Paul Foucher and Auguste Delaporte, 1866Le Baudet perdu, paysannerie in 1 act, with Varin, 1866Madame Ajax, play in 3 acts, with Varin, 1866L'Ange de mes rêves !, vaudeville in 3 acts, with Varin, 1867Ces Scélérates de bonnes, vaudeville in 3 acts, with Laurencin, 1867La Dame aux giroflées, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Varin, 1867Le Dernier des Gaillard, vaudeville in 1 act, with Varin, 1867Madame Pot-au-feu, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Varin, 1869