Charles Potier

Charles Joseph Édouard Potier, called Charles (Bordeaux, 1806 – Asnières-sur-Seine, 28 April 1870) was a 19th-century French actor and playwright.

A son of Charles-Gabriel Potier, Charles was an actor at the Théâtre des Variétés (1826), the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, then at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques. His plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques, the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, and the Théâtre Déjazet.

Works

Les 20000 francs, drama in one act mingled with songs, with Auguste-Louis-Désiré Boulé, 1832 La Fille du bourreau, folie-vaudeville in one act, with Boulé, 1833 Le Peloton de fil, moralité in 1 act, mingled with couplets, 1834 Parce que, ou la Suite de Pourquoi ? , comédie en vaudevilles in one act, with Boulé, 1835 Fanchette, ou l'Amour d'une femme, drama-vaudeville in two acts, with Boulé, 1836 Le Facteur, ou la Justice des hommes, drama in five acts, with Boulé and Charles Desnoyer, 1838 La Sœur de l'ivrogne, drama-vaudeville in one act, with Désiré Gautier, 1839 L'Amie et l'amant, ou La confiance du mari, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, with Hippolyte Rimbaut, 1840 Le Bijoutier de Nuremberg, ou Elle me console, drama in three acts, with Adolphe Guénée, 1840 Le Maître à tous, comedy in two acts mingled with singing, with Antony Béraud, 1840 Léon, Georges et Marie, ou les Deux amours, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, with Félix Dutertre de Véteuil, 1841 Le Marchand d'habits, drama in five acts, with Desnoyer, 1841 Les Deux Joseph, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, with Nyon, 1842 Tic, tac ! tic tac ! ou les Deux mariées, folie-vaudeville in one act, 1843 À la belle étoile, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, with Édouard Brisebarre, 1844 Estelle et Némorin, pastorale bouffonne in two acts, mingled with singing, with Michel Delaporte, 1844 Le Mal du pays, drama-vaudeville in three parts, with Brisebarre, 1846 Le Retour du conscrit, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, 1846 Bal et bastringue, comédie en vaudevilles in three acts, with Brisebarre, 1847 Deux loups de mer, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, with Brisebarre, 1847 Sans dot !, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, with Brisebarre, 1847 Tantale, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, with Brisebarre, 1847 Élevés ensemble, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, with Narcisse Fournier, 1848 L'Été de la Saint-Martin, comedy in one act, mingled with couplets, with Brisebarre, 1848 Le Voyage de Nanette, drame-vaudeville in three acts and four tableaux, with Brisebarre, 1848 Adrienne de Carotteville, ou La reine de la fantaisie, parody in un act of the 17th, 33th, 78th, 93rd, 96th, 112th, 129th, and 168th episodes of the Juif errant, with Eugène Nyon and Brisebarre, 1849 Les Fredaines de Troussard, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, with Brisebarre and Commerson, 1849 Qui se dispute s'adore, proverb in one act, with Henry de Kock, 1850 Un Coin du Palais de Cristal, à-propos-vaudeville in one act and two tableaux, with Théodore Faucheur, 1851 Une Soirée agitée, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, with Faucheur, 1852 Le Bonhomme Dimanche, revue-féerique in four acts and twenty tableaux, with Amédée de Jallais and Jules Renard, 1853 Le Carton vivant, comédie en vaudevilles in two acts, with Alexandre Flan, 1853 Un Homme seul, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, with Faucheur, 1853 Un Monsieur seul, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, with Faucheur, 1853 Où peut-on être mieux ?, comédie en vaudevilless in one act, with Paulin Deslandes, 1853 Le Forgeron de Gretna-Green, comédie en vaudevilles in two acts, with Flan, 1854 Où passerai-je mes soirées ?, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, with Gaston de Montheau, 1854 Voilà ce qui vient de paraître, revue of the year 1854, in three acts and 16 tableaux, with Adolphe Guénée, 1854 La Dame aux trois maris, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, with Guénée, 1855 Dzing ! Boum ! Boum !, revue de l'Exposition, in one acts and sixteen tableaux, with Guénée, 1855 L'Enfant du petit monde, comédie en vaudevilles in three acts, with Guénée, 1855 Vous allez voir ce que vous allez voir, revue of the year 1855, in three acts and 16 tableaux, with Guénée, 1855 Allons-y gaiment, revue of the year 1856, in three acts and fourteen tableaux, with Guénée, 1856 Les Dragées du 16 mars, à-propos mingled with couplets, with Guénée, 1856 Si j'étais riche, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, with Guénée, 1856 En avant, marche !, revue of the year1857, in three acts and sixteen tableaux, La Guerre des saisons, prologue, with Guénée, 1857 Petit Bonhomme vit encore, féerie in fifteen tableaux, 1857 Le Premier feu, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, with Guénée, 1857 Jacquot Renchéri, parody in three tableaux, of the Fils naturel, with Émile Abraham, 1858 La Jeunesse du jour, play mingled with songs, in three acts and six tableaux, with Eugène de Fère, 1858 Tout Paris y passera, revue of the year 1858, in three acts and fourteen tableaux, preceded by Paris sur scène, prologue, with Guénée, 1858 Vingt ans ou la Vie d'un séducteur, drame-vaudeville in five acts, with Deslandes, 1858 L'Éventail de Géraldine, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, with Ernest Mouchelet and Edgard Chanu, 1859 Le Doigt dans l’œil, revue of the year 1860, in three acts and twenty tableaux, with Dunan Mousseux, 1860 Les Leçons de Betzy, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, with Abraham, 1860 Les Piliers de café, drame-vaudevilles in four acts, with Abraham and Eugène Hugot, 1861 Les Trois ivresses, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, 1863