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Ernest Grenet-Dancourt

1854 – 1913

French playwright and poet

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Lived 1854 – 1913 (aged 58). Ernest Grenet-Dancourt was a French poet, playwright, chansonnier and writer.

Ernest Louis Antoine Grenet called Ernest Grenet-Dancourt ( 21 February 1854 – 10 February 1913) was a French playwright, poet and songwriter.

Life Born in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, after studying at the Lycée Saint-Louis, Grenet became a maître d'études, then a bank clerk, before embarking on a career as an actor at the Théâtre de l'Odéon, which he abandoned for good in 1881 to devote himself exclusively to writing.

His plays were performed on the greatest Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre de Cluny, Théâtre des Nouveautés, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, Théâtre de l'Odéon, etc.

Vice-president of the Les Hydropathes of 1879 and 1884, he was also responsible for some songs: Fleur d'amour, music by (1910), La Kraquette, song written with (music by Justin Clérice), Tristesse de la mer, music by Alfredo Barbirolli (1912)...

Grenet died in the 9th arrondissement of Paris aged 66.

Awards Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (décret du ministre de l'Instruction publique et des Beaux-Arts du 14 décembre 1900). Parrain : Victorien Sardou. Officier de l'Instruction publique.

Work Monologues : La Nuit terrible, badinage en vers, 1879 Adam et Eve, bouffonnerie en vers, 1879 Les Voyages, monologue comique, 1882 Les Joies matrimoniales, monologue comique en vers, 1890 Les Enfants de l'ivrogne, poème dramatique, 1880 Une distraction, monologue en vers, 1880 Paris, monologue comique dit by Coquelin aîné, 1882 La chasse, monologue comique dit by Coquelin aîné, 1882 Monologues comiques et dramatiques, P. Ollendorff, 1883 L'Homme qui bâille, monologue comique, 1884 Le Bon Dieu, monologue comique, 1884 J'ai rêvé !, monologue comique, 1887 L'Ancien temps, monologue comique, 1887 Thermidor !, raconté par X..., sociétaire de la Comédie-française, 1891 Le Matador, monologue comique, 1888 La Vie, monologue comique, 1891 Le Ventomane, monologue comique, soupiré par X..., sociétaire de la Comédie-française, 1893 A Guillaume II, P. Ollendorff, 1895 Le Récit de Théramène, monologue comique, 1895 La Jeune Fille, monologue comique, dit by Maurice de Féraudy, 1896 Graine de bourgeoise !, monologue comique en vers, 1906 Pauvre bête !, monologue comique dit by Émile Duard, 1906 Socialiste, monologue comique en vers dit by Paul Clerget, 1906 Choses à dire, comiques et dramatiques, Paul Ollendorff, 1910

Theatre : 1881 : Rival pour rire, one-act comedy 1882 : Divorçons-nous ?, one-act comedy 1882 : La Femme, saynète en 1 acte 1882 : Les Noces de mademoiselle Loriquet, comedy in 3 acts 1884 : Trois femmes pour un mari, comédie-bouffe in 3 acts 1884 : Oscar Bourdoche, one-act comedy 1886 : La banque de l'univers, comedy in five acts 1887 : Rigobert, vaudeville in 3 acts, with Paul Burani 1887 : La véritable histoire de Pierrot 1888 : Les Mariés de Mongiron, comédie-bouffe in 3 acts 1888 : Hypnotisée !, one-act comedy 1890 : La Revanche du mari, comedy in 3 acts, with Félix Cohen 1890 : La Scène à faire, comédie conjugale in 1 act 1891 : Norah la dompteuse, vaudeville in 3 acts, with Georges Bertal 1891 : L'Abbé Vincent, one-act comedy 1892 : L'Heure du bain, one-act comedy 1893 : Le Torchon brûle !, comédie conjugale in 1 act 1893 : Le Voyage des Berluron, vaudeville in 4 acts, with Maurice Ordonneau and Henri Kéroul (play revived in 1903) 1894 : Le Moulin de Javelle, opéra-comique in 1 act, music by Paul Henrion 1895 : Les gaîtés de l'année, revue de l'année 1894 in 2 acts and three scenes, with Octave Pradels 1895 : Jour de divorce, one-act comedy, with Gaston Pollonnais 1895 : La Petite veuve !, one-act comedy 1895 : Le Phoque, one-act comedy 1895 : La Macaroni, vaudeville in 2 acts, interspersed with songs, with Octave Pradels 1895 : Trop aimé, comédie-bouffe en 3 actes 1896 : Paris quand même ! ou les Deux Bigorret, comédie-bouffe in 3 acts, with Maurice Ordonneau 1896 : La Sauterelle, one-act comedy 1898 : Celle qu'il faut aimer, one-act comedy, with Gaston Pollonnais 1898 : Ceux qui restent !, one-act comedy 1900 : Ceux qu'on trompe !, one-act comedy 1901 : Le fils surnaturel, comédie-bouffe en 3 actes 1902 : Le Vampire, one-act comedy 1904 : L'Assassinée, comedy in 4 acts, after a short story by Gaston Bergeret 1904 : Beauté fatale ou fatale beauté, poème mobile 1904 : Les Gaîtés du veuvage, comédie-bouffe in 3 acts 1905 : L'Agrafe, one-act comedy, with Jean Destrem 1906 : La Veuve de Taupin, bouffonnerie in 1 act, in verses 1908 : Les Tribulations d'un gendre 1908 : Le Mendiant d'amour, opereta in 3 acts and 4 scenes, with Louis Marsolleau, music by Henri José 1910 : Chou blanc !, play in 3 acts, with Robert Dieudonné 1911 : L'Heure du bain, saynète en 1 acte 1911 : Par-ci, par-là, revue passe-partout, with Octave Pradels 1913 : Le Trésor dans la nuit, one-act comedy, with José Germain, created at the Theatre of Sens, 9 November 1913. This is the last play written by Ernest Grenet-Dancourt. Non représenté : Fin de flirt, one-act comedy, published in March 1913 at Albert Méricant éditeur à Paris.

Film adaptations 1913: Trois femmes pour un mari by Charles Prince, based on the comedy-bouffe in 3 acts by Ernest Grenet-Dancourt (1884), adapted by Georges Monca. 1919: Il viaggio di Berluron, Italian film by Camillo De Riso after Le Voyage de Berluron, vaudeville in four acts by Ernest Grenet-Dancourt, Maurice Ordonneau and Henri Kéroul (1893).

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Who was Ernest Grenet-Dancourt?

French playwright and poet

When was Ernest Grenet-Dancourt born?

Ernest Grenet-Dancourt was born on 21 February 1854 in 10ᵗʰ arrondissement of Paris.

When did Ernest Grenet-Dancourt die?

Ernest Grenet-Dancourt died on 10 February 1913 in Paris.

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Ernest Grenet-Dancourt was a poet, playwright, chansonnier and writer.

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Ernest Grenet-Dancourt was French.

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· Wikidata: Q18197570

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