Alexandre Barrière

Daniel Alexis François Barrière, also called Barrière aîné, (22 October 1792 – 30 August 1865) was a 19th-century French playwright, engraver and song writer.

Biography An engraver, trained by his father, he drew a part of the campaign plans for the marshal Laurent de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr as well as maps of Swabia, Russia, Corsica or Spain and of the county Mayo. He also made prints for the library.

His plays were presented on the most famous Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre des Variétés, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, etc.

His songs were published in 1829 in the book Étrennes lyriques ou Recueil de romances et nocturnes, with piano or harpes accompagnements by Antoine Romagnesi.

Plays and songs 1813: Le Mari en vacances, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Marc-Antoine Désaugiers 1816: Trois pour une ou les absents n'ont pas toujours tort, comédie-vaudeville en 1 act, with Désaugiers 1817: La Vendange normande, ou les Deux voisins, vaudeville in 1 act, with Michel-Joseph Gentil de Chavagnac 1830: Notre Grand'mère, chansonnette 1835: Mon bonnet de nuit, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Georges Duval 1835: Oui et non, comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts 1837: Les savetiers francs-juges, chronique messinaise in 3 acts, mingled with songs 1840: Les Pages de Louis XII, comedy mingled with song, in 2 acts, with Ferdinand de Villeneuve 1842: Le poète, ou Les droits de l'auteur, comedy in 1 act and in verses 1848: L'Autel de la Patrie, hymne national, music by Félix Marie 1857: Le legs (The Legacy), comedy by Marivaux set in verses 1861: La Sainte-Catherine, ou Un bienfait n'est jamais perdu, à-propos-vaudeville in 1 act