Ferdinand de Villeneuve

Ferdinand de Villeneuve (5 June 1801 – 27 September 1858) was a 19th-century French playwright.

Short biography He made his debut in the theatre at the age of 21 by partnering with Charles Dupeuty, and began to be successful from 1823 onwards. In 1825, he founded the newspaper La Nouveauté with Dupeuty, Amable de Saint-Hilaire and Musnier Desclozeaux, a publication which became a daily.

Co-director of the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin with Anténor Joly from December 1835, he then directed, still with Joly, the Théâtre de la Renaissance in 1838 with its own funds.

His plays were presented on several 19th-century Parisian stages, including the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, the Théâtre du Vaudeville, and the Théâtre des Variétés.

The painter and photographer Julien Vallou de Villeneuve was his brother.

Works

1822: L'Arracheur de dents, one-act folie-parade, mingled with couplets, with Charles Dupeuty 1822: Fille et garçon, ou la Petite orpheline, one-act comédie-vaudeville, with Dupeuty 1822: Le Premier prix, ou les Deux artistes, comédie-vaudeville in one act, with Dupeuty 1823: L'Actrice, comédie-vaudeville in one act, with Dupeuty 1823: Mon ami Christophe, comédie-vaudeville in one act, with Dupeuty and W. Lafontaine 1823: Le Oui des jeunes filles, comédie-vaudeville in one act, imitée de l'espagnol, with Jouslin de La Salle 1823: Le Sergent de Chevert, vaudeville historique in one act, with Dupeuty 1824: Les Acteurs à l'essai, comédie-vaudeville-épisodique in one act, with Dupeuty 1824: Léonide ou La Vieille de Suresne, comédie vaudeville in three acts, with Dupeuty and Amable de Saint-Hilaire 1824: Les Modistes, tableau-vaudeville in one act, with Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson and Dupeuty 1824: Ourika ou la Négresse, drama in one act, with Dupeuty 1824: La Petite somnambule, comédie-vaudeville in one act, with Dupeuty 1824: Pierre et Marie, ou le Soldat ménétrier, comédie-vaudeville in one act, with Dupeuty and Langlé 1824: Le Tableau de Téniers, ou l'Artiste et l'ouvrier, vaudeville in one act, with Dupeuty and Maurice Alhoy 1824: Un jour à Dieppe, à-propos-vaudeville, with Saint-Hilaire, Dupeuty and Langlé 1825: Alice, ou les Six promesses, vaudeville in one act, with Dupeuty and Saint-Hilaire 1825: Les Deux tailleurs, ou la Fourniture et la façon, comédie-vaudeville in one act, with Dupeuty and Jouslin de La Salle 1825: Nicaise, ou le Jour des noces, comédie-vaudeville in one act, with Dupeuty 1826: L'Anonyme, comédie-vaudeville in two acts, with Dupeuty and Jouslin de La Salle 1826: La Dette d'honneur, comédie vaudeville in two acts, with Dupeuty and Langlé 1826: Le Soldat en retraite, ou les Coups du sort, drama in two acts, with Jouslin de La Salle and Dupeuty 1826: Le Vieux pauvre, ou le Bal et l'incendie, melodrama in three acts and extravaganza, with Dupeuty and Ferdinand Laloue 1827: Gérard et Marie, comédie vaudeville in one act, with Étienne Arago 1827: Le Hussard de Felsheim, comédie-vaudeville in three acts, with Saint-Hilaire and Dupeuty 1827: La Fleuriste, comédie-vaudeville in one act, with Étienne Arago 1827: Monsieur Botte, comédie-vaudeville in three acts, with Dupeuty 1828: La Grande duchesse, comédie-vaudeville in one act, with Dupeuty and Saintine 1828: Les Poletais, comédie-vaudeville in two parts, with Saintine and Dupeuty 1828: L'Art de se faire aimer de son mari, comédie-vaudeville in three acts, with Saintine and Dupeuty 1828 Les dix francs de Jeannette, with Armand-François Jouslin de La Salle 1828: L'Enfant et le vieux garçon, ou la Réputation d'une femme, comédie en vaudevilles in one act, with Armand Desvergers and Charles Varin 1828: Guillaume Tell, drame-vaudeville in three acts, with Dupeuty and Saintine 1828: Henri IV en famille, comédie-vaudeville in one act, with Auguste Pittaud de Forges and Louis-Émile Vanderburch 1828: Le Pauvre Arondel, ou les Trois Talismans, vaudeville-féerie in two acts, with Arago 1828: Le Sergent Mathieu, comédie-vaudeville in three acts, with Saintine and Dupeuty 1828: Valentine, ou la Chute des feuilles, drama in two acts, mingled with songs, with Saint-Hilaire 1828: Yelva ou L'orpheline russe, vaudeville in two parts, with Desvergers and Eugène Scribe 1829: La jeunesse de Marie Stuart, drama in two parts, with Vanderburch 1829: La Maison du faubourg, comédie-vaudeville in two acts, with Vanderburch 1829: Le Mariage par autorité de justice, comedy in two acts, with Antoine Simonnin 1829: Mathieu Laensberg, comédie-vaudeville in two acts, with Bourgeois and Vanderburch 1829: La Paysanne de Livonie, comédie historique in two acts, mingled with songs, with Saintine and Vanderburch 1830: À-propos patriotique, with Michel Masson 1830: Le Congréganiste, ou les Trois éducations, comédie-vaudeville in three acts, with Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois 1830: Le Collège de *** [Reichenau], souvenirs de la Suisse, en 1794, comédie-vaudeville, with Adolphe de Leuven and Masson 1830: Le Marchand de la rue Saint-Denis, ou le Magasin, la mairie et la cour d'assises, comédie-vaudeville in three acts, with Brazier 1830: Le Moulin de Jemmapes, vaudeville historique in one act, with de Leuven and Masson 1831: L'audience du Prince, comédie-vaudeville in one act, with Anicet Bourgeois and Charles de Livry 1831: Angélique et Jeanneton, comédie-vaudeville in four acts, with Dupeuty and Saintine 1831: Les Bouillons à domicile, revue-vaudeville in one act, with de Lurieu and de Livry 1831: La Caricature, ou les Croquis à la mode, album in seven pochades, with de Lurieu and de Livry 1831: L'Entrevue, ou les Deux impératrices, comédie-vaudeville in one act, with Masson and Saintine 1831: La Jardinière de l'Orangerie, comédie-vaudeville in one act, with Masson 1831: Les Pilules dramatiques, ou le Choléra-morbus, revue critique et politique in one act 1831: Robert-le-Diable, à-propos-vaudeville, with Saintine 1831: Le Secret d'état, comédie-vaudeville in one act, with Eugène Sue and Édouard Magnien 1831: La Vieillesse de Stanislas, drame-vaudeville in one act, with Saint-Hilaire and Masson 1832: La ferme de Bondi, ou Les deux réfractaires, episode de l'Empire in four acts, with de Lurieu and Masson 1832: Le Bateau de blanchisseuses, tableau-vaudeville in one act, with Masson and de Livry 1832 La Chanteuse et l'ouvrière, comédie-vaudeville in four acts, with Saintine 1832: Sara, ou l'Invasion, conte allemand in two acts, mingled with vaudeville, with de Leuven and Masson 1833: La Révolte des femmes, vaudeville in two acts, with de Livry 1833: Santeul ou Le chanoine au cabaret, vaudeville in one act, with Brazier and Léon Lévy Brunswick 1833: Les Deux frères, comedy by Kotzebue, translated by Patrat, remise in two acts and in vaudeville, with Masson 1833: La fille de Dominique, comédie vaudeville in one act, with de Livry 1833: Les Locataires et les portiers, vaudeville in one act, with Brazier and de Livry 1834: Le Triolet bleu, comédie-vaudeville in five acts, with de Lurieu and Masson 1834: Lionel, ou Mon avenir, comédie-vaudeville in two acts, with de Livry 1834: Un bal de domestiques, vaudeville in one act, with de Livry 1835: Micheline, ou L'heure de l'esprit, opéra comique in one act, with Masson and Saint-Hilaire 1835: Les infidélités de Lisette, drame vaudeville in five acts, with Nicolas Brazier and de Livry 1835: On ne passe pas ! ou le Poste d'honneur, vaudeville in one act, with Masson 1835: Le Ménage du savetier, ou la Richesse du pauvre, comédie-vaudeville in one act, with Jouslin de La Salle 1835: Micheline, ou L'heure de l'esprit, opéra comique in one act, with Masson and Saint-Hilaire 1836: La Grue, fabliau mêlé de chant, with Charles Rondeau and de Livry 1837: La Résurrection de Saint Antoine, à propos-vaudeville in one act, with Emmanuel Théaulon and Brazier 1837: Le Mémoire de la blanchisseuse, comedy in one act, mingled with couplets, with Brazier and de Livry 1838: Mademoiselle Dangeville, comédie in one act, mingled with song, with de Livry 1838: L'enfant de la balle, vaudeville in two acts, with Didier 1839: Rendez donc service, comédie proverbe in one act, with Masson 1840: Cocorico ou La poule à ma tante, vaudeville in five acts, with Masson and Saint-Yves 1840: Les pages de Louis XII, comedy in two acts, with Alexandre Barrière 1840: Le Mari de la fauvette, opéra comique in one act, with Angel and Veyrat 1840: Les marins d'eau douce, vaudeville in one act, with Angel and Veyrat 1840: Tout pour les filles rien pour les garçons, vaudeville in two acts, with de Lurieu 1841: Voltaire en vacances, comédie vaudeville in two acts, with de Livry 1842: Au croissant d'argent, comédie-vaudeville in two acts, with Hippolyte Le Roux 1842: Un bas bleu, vaudeville in one act, with Ferdinand Langlé 1842: Les batignollaises, vaudeville grivois in one act, with de Lurieu 1842: Jaket's club, vaudeville in two acts, with Ernest Jaime 1844: Pulcinella, comédie-vaudeville in two acts, with Adolphe d'Ennery 1845: L'almanach des adresses, comédie-vaudeville in three acts, with Édouard Lafargue 1845: La Morale en action, comédie-vaudeville in one act, with Jaime 1846: Jean-Baptiste, ou Un cœur d'or, drama in five acts, mingled with songs, with Masson and Frédéric Thomas 1846: L'inconnue de Ville-d'Avray, comédie-vaudeville in one act, with Angel 1847: L'Homme aux 160 millions, comédie-vaudeville in two acts, with Angel and Xavier Veyrat 1849: Lorettes et aristos ou Une soirée au Ranelagh, tableau-vaudeville in one act, with Paul Siraudin 1850: Un fantôme, comédie-vaudeville in one act, with Lafargue 1850: Jean Bart, pièce historique in five acts, with Forges 1854: La Femme à trois maris, comédie-vaudeville in one act 1854: Une sangsue, comédie vaudeville in one act, with Langlé 1855: Bonaparte à l'École de Brienne, play in three acts and four tableaux, with Gabriel de Lurieu and Michel Masson 1855: Deux vieilles gardes, opéra bouffe in one act, with Léo Delibes