Étienne Crétu

Étienne Crétu was an 18th and 19th-century French playwright.

The son of Anthelme Crétu, managing director of the Théâtre des Variétés who associated him to the direction, his plays were presented in this theatre from 1801 to 1828.

Works 1785: Les Deux gendres, comedy in five acts and in verse 1799: Pygmalion à Saint-Maur, farce-anecdotique in one act and vaudevilles, with François Bernard-Valville and Étienne Gosse 1801: Quel est le plus ridicule ? ou La Gravure en action, folie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Gosse and Morel 1826: Le Chiffonnier, ou le Philosophe nocturne, comédie en vaudevilles in five acts and in one day, with Emmanuel Théaulon 1826: Paris et Bruxelles, ou le Chemin à la mode, two-act comédie en vaudevilles, with Jean-Baptiste Gondelier and Théaulon 1826: Le Soufflet conjugal, one-act comédie en vaudevilles, with Théaulon 1827: Les Compagnons du devoir, ou le Tour de France, one-act tableau-vaudeville, with W. Lafontaine 1827: Le Bénéficiaire, comedy in five acts and one vaudeville, with Théaulon 1827: Jean de Calais, comedy in two acts, mingled with couplets, with Gabriel de Lurieu and Louis-Émile Vanderburch 1828: L'Oncle en tutelle, one-act comédie en vaudevilles, with Vanderburch