Armand Lapointe

Armand Lapointe (1 May 1822 – 6 March 1910 ) was a French novelist, journalist and playwright. He also wrote the libretto of the opérette bouffe Mesdames de la Halle by Jacques Offenbach.

Biography He was a prolific popular author in the years 1850–1890 and still obviously remembered at the time of his death.

During the Second French Empire, his comedies were given in Paris, at the Théâtre des Variétés and his opéra bouffe was produced at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens. From 1860, Lapointe was devoted mainly to writing novels. He was a friend of Gustave Aimard, with whom he would attend the .

Works

1852: La Course à la veuve, folie-vaudeville en 1 act 1853: Les Drames du foyer, with F. de Reiffenberg fils 1853: Les moustaches grises, vaudeville in 1 act, with Achille Bourdois and Émile Colliot 1853: Le mari par régime, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Bourdois and Colliot 1853: Mélez-vous de vos affaires, vaudeville in 1 act, with Bourdois and Colliot) 1854: Un provincial qui se forme, comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Colliot and H. Mareuge, Beck 1854: A la recherche d'un million, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Colliot and H. Mareuge, Beck 1857: Le Bazar européen, revue-vaudeville in 1 act 1857: Avez-vous besoin d'argent ?, parody of La Question d'argent, with Paul Siraudin and Bourdois 1858: Dalila et Samson, histoire en 5 feuillets, mixed with distincts, with Eugène Grangé 1858: Faust et Framboisy, drame burlesque in 3 acts and 11 tableaux, with Bourdois 1858: Mesdames de la Halle, opéra bouffe in 1 act, music by Jacques Offenbach, with Josef Heinzelmann 1859: Les deux maniaques, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Colliot and Adolphe Choler 1859: Les Dames de Coeur-Volant, opéra bouffe in 1 act, with Bourdois 1860: Les Parisiennes. La comtesse Jeanne, 1860: Voyage à la recherche du bonheur, (in Le Musée des familles, issue 15) 1868: La dernière douairière, (published as a serial) 1870: Les flibustiers du grand monde 1875: La vie parisienne 1876: La chasse aux fantômes 1878: Les déserts africains : aventures extraordinaires d'un homme, d'un singe et d'un éléphant, with Henri de Montaut 1878: Les rivalités : le docteur Jacques Hervey 1879: Bataille d'amoureuses 1880: Reine du faubourg 1881: Reine coquette 1881: L'abandonnée, (published as a serial in Le Petit Parisien in 1877) 1882: Le cousin César, (foreword by Jules Claretie) 1884: Feu Robert-Bey 1884: La princesse : roman parisien 1884: Le roman d'un médecin, 1885: Madame Margaret : histoire parisienne, Plon 1886: L'enjôleuse 1886: Les galères de l'amour 1887: Les Mémoires de Valentin 1888: La fille repentie 1888: Reine de nuit 1889: Les étoiles filantes, roman parisien 1889: Le Don Quichotte de la mer, aventures de terre et de mer 1894: Petite guerre, comédie de salon in 1 act 1896: Les sept hommes rouges 1901: Le fils du Boër Le bonhomme misère, Plon