Desfontaines-Lavallée

François-Georges Fouques Deshayes (1733, Caen – 20 November 1825), known as Desfontaines or Desfontaines-Lavallée, was a French writer and playwright.

Before the French Revolution he worked as a royal censor, secretary and librarian. He cooperated in the publication of the Nouvelle Bibliothèque des romans (New Library of Novels) and wrote several novels himself, including Lettres de Sophie et du chevalier de *** (1765).

He was one of the founders of the Dîners du Vaudeville and of the Dîners du Caveau. He died in Paris.

Works Theatre 1765: La Bergère des Alpes, comedy in 1 act and in free vers, Hôtel de Bourgogne, 15 December 1767: L'Aveugle de Palmyre, comédie pastorale in 2 acts in verse mingled with ariettes, Hôtel de Bourgogne, 5 March Read online 1771: La Cinquantaine, pastorale in 3 acts, music by Laborde, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 13 Août Read online 1773: Isménor, heroic drama in 3 acts, music by Rodolphe, Château de Versailles, 17 November 1776: Le Mai, comedy in 3 acts, mingled with verse and prose, ariettes and vaudevilles and ending with a ballet, Hôtel de Bourgogne, 8 May 1778: La Chasse, comedy in 3 acts and in prose, mingled with ariettes, Hôtel de Bourgogne, 12 October 1780: L'amant anonyme, opéra comique in 2 acts with music by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, 8 March 1781: L'Amant statue, opéra comique in vaudevilles in 1 act, Hôtel de Bourgogne, 20 February 1781: Isabelle hussard, parade in 1 act and in vaudevilles, Hôtel de Bourgogne, 31 July 1782: L'Amour et la Folie, opera comique in 3 acts, in vaudevilles and in prose, Hôtel de Bourgogne, 5 March 1783: Les Trois inconnues, comedy in 3 acts and in verse mingled with ariettes, Château de Versailles, 7 February 1783: Le Réveil de Thalie, comedy in 3 acts, Comédie Italienne, 6 May 1783: La Dot, comedy in 3 acts and in prose, Hôtel de Bourgogne, 8 November 1784: Les Amours de Chérubin, comedy in 3 acts and in prose, mingled with music and vaudevilles, Hôtel de Bourgogne, 4 November 1785: L'Amant statue, comedy in 1 act and in prose mingled with ariettes, with music by Nicolas Dalayrac, salle Favart, created 4 August 1785: La Dot, comedy in 3 acts and in prose mingled with ariettes, music by Nicolas Dalayrac, salle Favart, created 8 November at the Cour in Fontainebleau then given 21 November 1786: L'Incendie du Havre, historical fact in one act, prose and vaudevilles, Hôtel de Bourgogne, 21 February 1788: Fanchette ou l'Heureuse Épreuve, comedy in 3 acts and in prose mingled with ariettes, music by Nicolas Dalayrac, salle Favart, 13 October 1790: Le District de village, ambigu in 1 act, Hôtel de Bourgogne, 15 March Read online 1790: Vert-Vert, divertissement in 1 act, music by Nicolas Dalayrac, salle Favart, created 11 October 1792: Les Mille et un théâtres, opera comique in 1 act and in vaudevilles, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 14 February 1792: Arlequin afficheur, comédie-parade in 1 act, in prose mingled with vaudeville, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 9 April 1792: Le Projet manqué, ou Arlequin taquin, parody of Lucretius, in 1 act, in prose and in vaudevilles, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 18 May 1792: Arlequin Cruello, parody of Othello by Jean-François Ducis, in 2 acts and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 13 December 1793: La Chaste Suzanne, play in 2 acts, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Palais de l'Égalité, 5 January 1793: Colombine mannequin, comédie-parade in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 15 February 1793: Le Divorce, comedy in 1 act and in vaudeville, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 18 May Read online 1793: Au retour, historic and patriotic fact in 1 act and in vaudevilles, with Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 4 November 1794: La Fête de l'égalité, comedy in 1 act, with Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 25 February Read online 1794: Les Vieux époux, comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 24 March 1796: Encore un curé, historic and patriotic fact in 1 act and in vaudevilles, with Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 20 November Read online 1794: Les Chouans de Vitré, historical fact in 1 act, in prose, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 12 June 1794: La Fille soldat, historical fact in 1 act and vaudevilles, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 13 December 1795: Abuzar, ou La Famille extravagante, parody of Abufar, ou la Famille arabe, in 1 act and in vaudevilles, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 15 May Read online 1797: Le Mariage de Scarron, comedy in 1 act and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 8 May 1797: Le Pari, divertissement in 1 act, in prose and vaudevilles, on the occasion of peace, with Pierre-Yves Barré, Jean-Baptiste Radet, Jacques-Marie Deschamps and Jean-Baptiste-Denis Desprès, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 28 October Read online 1798: Jean-Jacques Rousseau dans son ermitage, ou la Vallée de Montmorency, comédie en vaudeville in 3 acts, with Pierre-Yves Barré, Jean-Baptiste Radet and Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de Piis, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 1 June 1798: Hommage du petit Vaudeville au grand Racine, comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Pierre-Yves Barré, Jean-Baptiste Radet, André-François de Coupigny and Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de Piis, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 21 May 1799: Voltaire, ou Une journée de Ferney, comedy in 2 acts, mingled with vaudevilles, with Pierre-Yves Barré, Jean-Baptiste Radet, André-François de Coupigny and Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de Piis, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 19 February 1799: Monet directeur de l'Opéra-comique, comedy in 1 act and in vaudevilles, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 22 July 1799: La Girouette de Saint-Cloud, impromptu in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Pierre-Yves Barré, Jean-Baptiste Radet, Emmanuel Dupaty and Bourgueil, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 14 November 1799: Cendrillon, ou l'École des mères, comedy in 2 acts, Théâtre du Vaudeville 1800: M. Guillaume, ou le Voyageur inconnu, comedy in 1 act and in prose mingled with vaudevilles, with Pierre-Yves Barré, Jean-Baptiste Radet and Bourgueil, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 1 February 1800: Gessner, comedy in 2 acts and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Pierre-Yves Barré, Jean-Baptiste Radet and Bourgueil, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 31 May 1800: La Récréation du monde, suite de la Création, melodrama, music by Joseph Haydn, mingled with vaudevilles, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 29 December 1801: Enfin nous y voilà, divertissement in 1 act, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 18 February 1802: La Tragédie au Vaudeville, in 1 act and in prose, mingled with couplets, followed by Après la confession, la pénitence, petit épilogue à l'occasion d'un grand prologue, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 18 March 1803: Cassandre-Agamemnon et Colombine-Cassandre, parody of Agamemnon, in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Pierre-Yves Barré, Jean-Baptiste Radet and Armand Gouffé, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 2 December 1803: Chapelain, ou la Ligue des auteurs contre Boileau, comédie en vaudeville in 1 act and in prose, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 23 December 1804: La Tapisserie de la reine Mathilde, comedy in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 14 January 1804: Duguay-Trouin, prisonnier à Plymouth, historical fact in 2 acts, with Pierre-Yves Barré, Jean-Baptiste Radet and Saint-Félix, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 14 April 1804: Bertrand Duguesclin et sa sœur, comedy in 2 acts and in prose mingled with vaudevilles, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 27 November 1805: Sophie Arnould, comedy in 3 acts and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, January 1805: Le Vaudeville au camp de Boulogne, prologue impromptu, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Boulogne-sur-Mer, 17 August 1805: Les Écriteaux, ou René Le Sage à la foire Saint-Germain, pièce anecdotique in 2 acts and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, December 1806: Les Deux n'en font qu'un, comedy in 1 act and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, followed by a divertissement on the occasion of peace, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 31 January 1806: Omazette, ou Jozet en Champagne, parody of Omasis, ou Joseph en Égypte, comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 6 October 1806 Le Rêve, ou la Colonne de Rosback, divertissement de circonstance, in prose and vaudevilles, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 15 November 1807: Le Château et la Chaumière, ou les Arts et la reconnaissance, comedy in 3 acts, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 22 January 1807: L'Ile de la Mégalantropogénésie, ou les Savants de naissance, comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Pierre-Yves Barré, Jean-Baptiste Radet and Michel Dieulafoy, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 26 May 1807: L'Hôtel de la Paix, rue de la Victoire, à Paris, comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Pierre-Yves Barré, Jean-Baptiste Radet and Michel Dieulafoy, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 3 July 1808: Le Voyage de Chambord, ou la Veille de la première représentation du Bourgeois gentilhomme, comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Henri Dupin, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 11 July 1809: Le Peintre français en Espagne, ou le Dernier soupir de l'Inquisition, comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 11 March 1809: Lantara, ou le Peintre au cabaret, comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Pierre-Yves Barré, Jean-Baptiste Radet and Louis Picard, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 2 October Read online 1810: M. Durelief, ou Petite revue des embellissements de Paris, in prose and in vaudevilles, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 9 June 1810: Les Deux Lions, vaudeville in 1 act, with Pierre-Yves Barré, Jean-Baptiste Radet and Louis-Benoît Picard, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 2 Octobre 1811: La Nouvelle télégraphique, comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 21 March 1811: Les Deux Edmond, comedy in 2 acts and in prose, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 18 April 1811: Laujon de retour à l'ancien Caveau, comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, par les convives du Caveau moderne, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 2 December 1811: Les Amazones et les Scythes, ou Sauter le fossé, comédie en deux actes, avec Pierre-Yves Barré et Jean-Baptiste Radet, Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 19 December 1812: Les Limites, comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 19 September 1812: Gaspard l'avisé, comédie anecdotique in 1 act, in prose and vaudevilles, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 27 October 1813: Le Billet trouvé, comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre des Variétés, 3 May 1814: Un Petit voyage du Vaudeville, divertissement in 1 act, for the return of peace, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 5 May 1815: Les Trois Saphos lyonnaises, ou Une vour d'amour, comédie en vaudeville in 2 acts, with Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 14 January Varia 1765: Lettres de Sophie et du chevalier de **, pour servir de supplément aux lettres du marquis de Roselle, 2 vol. 1779–1781 Histoire universelle des théâtres de toutes les nations, depuis Thespis jusqu'à nos jours, with Jean-Marie-Louis Coupé, Testu and Le Fuel de Méricourt, 13 vol. 1785: Les Quatre Saisons littéraires, 2 vol. 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