Edmond Burat de Gurgy

Edmond Burat de Gurgy, real name Edmond François Célestin Burat de Gurgy, (1810 – 7 March 1840) was a French writer and playwright.

His plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of his time as soon as 1830 (Folies-Dramatiques, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique etc.) when sick with tuberculosis in December 1839, he died untimely three months later

Works 1830: Un duel sous Charles IX. Scène historique du XVIe siècle 1831: La Prima Donna et le garçon boucher, with Clément Burat de Gurgy 1831: Les Deux modistes, with Clément Burat de Gurgy 1832: Le Lit de camp, scènes de la vie militaire, with Clément Burat de Gurgy 1834: Paris, un bal 1834: Byron à l'école d'Harrow, episode mixed with distincts, with Hippolyte Cogniard 1834: Paillasse, episode of carnaval 1835: Le Fils de Figaro, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Victor Masselin 1835: Le Fils de Triboulet, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with H. Cogniard 1836: Le diable boiteux, ballet pantomime in 3 acts, with Casimir Gide and Jean Coralli 1836: La Jeunesse d'un grand roi, historical episode in 1 act, mixed with distincts 1836: Trois cœurs de femmes, vaudeville in 3 acts, with Adolphe d'Ennery and Achille d'Artois 1837: Biographie des acteurs de Paris 1837: Tabarin, ou un Bobêche d'autrefois, fantaisie in 1 act, mixed with song 1838: La Chambre et le fauteuil de Molière 1839: Le bonheur sous les toits, vaudeville in 3 acts 1840: Le Chasseur de la Montagne, tyrolienne, lyrics by Edmond Burat de Gurgy, music by Charles Haas 1840: Les deux filles de l'air, puff in 2 acts, with Achille Gastaldy

In addition, he participated to the collective book, Paris au XIXe siècle. Recueil de scènes de la vie parisienne dessinées d'après nature, Beauger, 1839.