Adrien Payn

Adrien Henri Payn (Paris, 30 July 1800 – Montévrain, 3 October 1855) was a 19th-century French novelist and playwright.

His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th-century, including the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, the Théâtre du Gymnase-Dramatique and the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin. In collaboration with Benjamin Antier and Polyanthe, Payn authored the famous drama l’Auberge des Adrets.

Payn was the mayor of the city of Montévrain from 1848 to 1854. He died aged 55.

Works 1823: La Cousine supposée, comedy in 1 act and in prose, with René Perin and Villard 1828: Roc l'exterminateur, melodrama comique in 3 acts, with Théodore Nézel 1831: Le Tir et le restaurant, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Nézel and Armand Joseph Overnay 1831: Le Watchman, drama in 3 acts and 6 tableaux, with Benjamin Antier and Overnay 1832: Marie-Rose, ou la Nuit de Noël, three-act drama, with Saint-Amand 1835: Chérubin, ou le Page de Napoléon, two-act comédie en vaudeville, with Adrien Delaville, Charles Desnoyer, Edmond de Biéville and Adrien Viguier 1836: Le Doyen de Killerine, two-act comédie en vaudeville after the novel by Abbé Prévost, with Overnay 1840: La Peur du tonnerre, vaudeville in 1 act, with Overnay 1850: Trois amours d'anglais, ballet-comique