Amable Bapaume

Amable Bapaume (26 March 1825 – 7 July 1895) was a 19th-century French novelist, journalist and playwright.

Biography For several years, Bapaume was a teacher in Paris at the collège Sainte-Barbe and the . In 1847, he published a first novel, Juana la Lionne. In the 1860s, under the pen name "Henri Normand", he had several comédies en vaudeville published, most of them written in collaboration with Jean-Louis-Auguste Commerson, then director of Le Tintamarre. Having abandoned teaching, Bapaume contributed a number of humorous articles to this newspaper, including a series of Medallions etching which earned him some trouble with certain fellow of actresses of whom he had drawn very unflattering portraits.

When Commerson sold the Tintamarre to Touchatout and revived the Tam-Tam in 1872, Bapaume followed him and wrote there articles under the name "Commodore". Like the Tintamarre, the Tam-Tam was "the newspaper of choice for the insane fantasy and jokes with punch. 1863: Les Égarements de deux billets de banque, two-act comédie en vaudeville, Paris, Théâtre Déjazet, 16 January 1864: La Vengeance de Pistache, one-act vaudeville, with Commerson, Paris, Théâtre Déjazet, 26 May 1866: Doña Framboisias, one-act folie-vaudeville, with Commerson, Paris, Théâtre des Folies-Marigny, 6 July 1867: Les Vacances de Cadichet, one-act vaudeville, with Commerson, Paris, Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, 22 July 1869: X. Q. P. G., one-act vaudeville, Paris, Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, 9 March Varia 1846: Un Anniversaire. Anniversaire du 13 juillet 1842 Text online 1847: Juana la Lionne, ou les Jeunes gens d'aujourd'hui, novel, 3 vol. Text online 1 2 1852: Oncles et Neveux, ou Rome sous Jules César et Auguste et la France sous Napoléon Bonaparte et Louis-Napoléon, play in verse, Text online 1870: La Rome tintamarresque, histoire drôlatique et anecdotique de Rome depuis sa fondation jusqu'au moyen âge, foreword by Commerson 1872: Napoléon Ier, histoire tamtamarresque du grand homme, foreword by Commerson 1878: Cœur de lionne, novel 1882:Les Requins de Paris, novel 1888: Le Cocher de la duchesse, novel