Jean-Baptiste Gondelier

Jean-Baptiste Gondelier (8 December 1792 in Dijon – 31 October 1878) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist.

Biography An engraver and lithographer at 110 in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, Jean-Baptiste Gondelier received a patent in letters on 12 September 1828. A widow in 1820 of Anne-Françoise-Esther Morisset, he remarried on 25 September 1824 with Joséphine Foliot.

The publisher, among others, of the Constitutionnel and the Gazette des théâtres, He permanently ceased his activities as a printer-lithographer on 8 July 1852. His plays were presented at the Théâtre du Vaudeville and the Théâtre des Variétés.

He married Marie Rosine Palmyre Blancvillain. He died in Laon, Aisne, in 1878.

Works 1826: Le Dilettante, ou le Siège de l'Opéra, folie-vaudeville in five little acte, à propos du Siège de Corinthe, with Emmanuel Théaulon and Théodore Anne, music by Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, at the Théâtre du Vaudeville (6 November) 1826: La Mère au bal et la fille à la maison, two-act comédie en vaudevilles, with Emmanuel Théaulon, at the Théâtre du Vaudeville (30 November) 1826: Paris et Bruxelles, ou le Chemin à la mode, two-act comedy in vaudevilles, with Emmanuel Théaulon and Étienne Crétu, at Theatre des Variétés (4 December) 1827: Le Courrier des théâtres, ou la Revue à franc-étrier, folie-vaudeville in five relais, with Théodore Anne and Emmanuel Théaulon, at Théâtre du Vaudeville (24 February) 1827: La Girafe, ou Une journée au jardin du Roi, tableau-à-propos in vaudevilles, with Emmanuel Théaulon and Théodore Anne, at Théâtre du Vaudeville (7 July) 1827: Faust, lyrical drama in three acts after the tragedy by Goethe, lyrics by Théaulon and Gondelier, music by Philippe-Alexis Béancourt, at the Théâtre des Nouveautés (27 October)