Charles de Livry

Charles Sanguin, marquis de Livry (Paris 1802 – Enghien 14 October 1867) was a 19th-century French playwright.

After he made a career in the military, he became famous in the theatre. His plays, often signed Charles, were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre des Variétés, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, and the Théâtre de la Gaité.

Works

1828: Le Château de Monsieur le baron, comédie en vaudevilles in 2 acts, with Achille d'Artois and de Leuven 1828: Le Coup de pistolet, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Adolphe d'Houdetot 1828: L'École de natation, tableau-vaudeville in 1 act, with de Leuven and Alphonse Signol 1829: L'Audience du juge de paix, ou le Bureau de conciliation, tableau in 1 act, with Edmond Rochefort 1829: La Barrière du combat, ou le Théâtre des animaux, 2 tableaux mingled with animals and couplets, with Adolphe de Leuven and Julien de Mallian 1829: Le Tir au pistolet, vaudeville in 1 act, in 2 tableaux, with de Leuven and Masson 1829: La Tyrolienne, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with de Leuven and Emmanuel Théaulon 1830: Madame Grégoire, ou le Cabaret de la pomme de pin, song in 2 acts, with Rochefortand Charles Dupeuty 1830: Un tour en Europe, nightmare in 5 fits, with prologue and epilogue, with Ferdinand Langlé and de Leuven 1831: Les Bouillons à domicile, revue-vaudeville in 1 act, with Gabriel de Lurieu and de Villeneuve 1831: La Caricature, ou les Croquis à la mode, album in 7 pochades, with de Lurieu and de Villeneuve 1831: Rabelais, ou le Presbytère de Meudon, comédie-anecdote mingled with couplets, with de Leuven 1831 Scaramouche, ou la Pièce interrompue, anecdote of 1669, in 2 acts, mingled with couplets, with Forges 1832: Le Bateau de blanchisseuses, tableau-vaudeville in 1 act 1832: Mon oncle Thomas, play in 5 acts and 6 tableaux, mingled with couplets, with Michel Masson 1833: La Révolte des femmes, vaudeville in 2 acts, with de Villeneuve 1833: Santeul ou Le chanoine au cabaret 1833: La Fille de Dominique, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with de Villeneuve 1833: Les Locataires et les portiers, vaudeville in 1 act, with Brazier and de Villeneuve 1834: La Salamandre, comédie en vaudevilles in 4 acts, with de Leuven and Philippe-Auguste-Alfred Pittaud de Forges 1834: Un bal de domestiques, vaudeville in 1 act, with Ferdinand de Villeneuve 1834: Lionel, ou Mon avenir, comédie en vaudevilles in 2 acts, with de Villeneuve 1834: La Tempête, ou l'Île des bossus, folie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Forges and de Leuven 1835: Les Infidélités de Lisette, drama vaudeville in 5 acts, with Nicolas Brazier and de Villeneuve 1836: La Grue, fabliau mêlé de chant, with de Villeneuve 1836: Roquelaure, ou l'Homme le plus laid de France, vaudeville in 4 acts, with Léon Lévy Brunswick and de Leuven 1836: Madame Peterhoff, vaudeville anecdote in 1 act, with Antonin d'Avrecourt and Eugène Roche 1837: Mémoire d'une blanchisseuse, comedy in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with Brazier 1838: Mademoiselle Dangeville, comedy in 1 act, with de Villeneuve 1841: Voltaire en vacances, comédie en vaudevilles in 2 acts, with de Villeneuve 1847: Une vie de polichinelle, pantomime-arlequinade-féerie in 11 tableaux 1849: Les Épreuves, grande pantomime-arlequinade in 13 tableaux 1849: Les Naufrageurs de la Bretagne, dramatico-comic play, extravaganza mingled with pantomime, de combats au sabre, à la hache et au poignard, in 13 tableaux 1851: L'Audience du Prince, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois 1855: Trois têtes dans un bonnet, vaudeville in 1 act