Jean-Joseph Ader

Jean-Joseph Ader (16 October 1796 – 12 April 1859) was a 19th-century French playwright, writer and historian.

Biography Ader studied in a seminary of the Basque country and arrived in Paris in 1813 where he studied medicine and law.

He began his literary career by collaborating with the Diable boiteux, the Frondeur, the Pandore and the Mercure du XIXe siècle. His articles earned him many problems with the police court. In 1826, he was sentenced to five days in jail against three months required for the anonymous article Robin des bois in the Frondeur which was assigned to him. He then moved to Belgium where he founded the Constitutionnel des Pays-Bas with Pierre François Tissot, another quickly banned newspaper.

In July 1830, he was among the three hundred journalists and writers who wrote calls to insurrection to achieve the abdication of Charles X's monarchy.

His plays were given at the Théâtre de l'Odéon, the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin and the most important Parisian stages of his times.

Works

1817: Traité du mélodrame, with Abel Hugo and Armand Malitourne 1824: Ludovic Sforce, tragedy in 5 acts 1825: Les Deux écoles, ou le Classique et le romantique, comedy in 3 acts and in verse, (with Joseph-Léonard Detcheverry 1826: Résumé de l'histoire du Béarn, de la Gascogne supérieure et des Basques 1826: Napoléon devant ses contemporains 1826: Histoire de L’expédition d’Égypte et de Syrie, with 1826: L'Actrice, ou les Deux portraits, comedy in 1 act and in verse, with Louis Marie Fontan 1827: Le Cachemire, comedy in 1 act and in verse, with Édouard d'Anglemont 1827: Petit rocher de Cancale 1828: Les Suites d'un coup d'épée, one-act comedy in prose, with Émile Brousse 1828: Plutarque des Pays-Bas, ou Vies des hommes illustres de ce royaume 1829: La Bossue, ou, Le Jour de La Majorit, one-act comedy in verse, with Fontan 1829: Gillette de Narbonne, ou le Mari malgré lui anecdote du XVe siècle, comédie-vaudeville in 3 acts, with Fontan and Charles Desnoyer 1830: Jeanne la Folle, ou, La Bretagne au XIIIe siècle, historical drama in 5 acts, in verse, with Fontan and Alfred de Rhéville) 1832: Le Barbier du Roi D'Aragon, with Louis Marie Fontan and Louis Alexandre Piccinni 1834: L'Angélus, opéra comique in 1 act, music by Casimir Gide 1839: L'Oncle modèle, vaudeville in 1 act 1839: Deux Normands, vaudeville in 1 act Folle qui se désole, romance, with Fontan and Desnoyer L'enfance d’Henri IV, poetry