Jules Moinaux

Jules Moinaux, real name Joseph-Désiré Moineaux or Moineau (24 October 1815 – 4 December 1895) was a 19th-century French writer, playwright, and librettist. Georges Courteline, whose civil status name was Georges Moinaux (or Moineau), was his son.

Biography The son of Joseph-Jacques Moineau, a cabinetmaker in Tours, Jules Moinaux began with learning the trade from his father. But soon, he preferred to live by his pen, and became a journalist and a writer-reporter at Palais de Justice, Paris.

By the late 1840s, he began writing, very often in collaboration, comic pieces that found success. In 1853, he wrote Pépito, an opéra comique for Jacques Offenbach, and in 1855, again for Offenbach, Les Deux Aveugles, a musical buffoonery.

In 1866, his comedy Les Deux Sourds was created at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris. During the Franco-Prussian War, while he volunteered for the , he had an opéra bouffe, Le Canard à trois becs, presented with great success at the Folies-Dramatiques.

His judicial chronicles of the Criminal Court, written with verve for La Gazette des tribunaux, Le Charivari, etc., were collected in 1881 under the title Les Tribunaux comiques. His son Courteline sometimes drew inspiration from these for some of his own plays.

His satire of the police community, Le Bureau du Commissaire, was published in 1886 with a preface by Alexandre Dumas fils.

Le Monde ou l'on rit, his last work, was published in 1895. That collection of sketches featured among others Le Sourd qui n'avoue pas, On demande un malade gai, Le Rapia de Champigny, and L'Homme aux goûts champêtres.

He is buried at located in the 12th arrondissement of Paris.

Works

1846: La Cigale et la Fourmi 1849: La Conquête de la Chine, ode symphoni-charivarique 1850: Carrière politique d'un préfet de février, histoire de deux ans 1850: Une ordonnance de police, pot-pourri

1853: Pépito, opéra comique, music by Jacques Offenbach 1854: La Question d'Orient, à-propos-vaudeville mingled with couplets 1854: Dromadard et Panadier en Orient, à-propos-vaudeville 1855: Les Deux Aveugles, bouffonnerie musicale, music by Jacques Offenbach 1855: Les Gueux de Béranger, drama mingled with song 1857: La Botte secrète, folie-vaudeville 1858: Les Désespérés, one-act opéra comique 1858: L'Ut dièse, one-act bouffonnerie 1859: Le Zouave, récits et correspondances militaires 1859: La Clarinette mystérieuse, comédie en vaudeville 1861: Paris quand il pleut, comédie en vaudeville 1861: Le Voyage de M. Dunanan père et fils, opéra-bouffe 1861: Le Monsieur de la rue de Vendôme, one-act comédie en vaudeville 1862: Le Café de la rue de la Lune, one-act folie-vaudeville 1862: Le Secret du rétameur, one-act comédie en vaudeville 1862: Le Mari d'une étoile, two-act folie-vaudeville 1863: Les Géorgiennes, three-act opéra-bouffe, music by Jacques Offenbach read online, A. Lemerre 1864: Le Joueur de flûte, vaudeville romain, musique gauloise by Hervé 1864: Eh ! Lambert !, à-propos-vaudeville 1864: Les Marionnettes de l'amour, three-act comedy 1865: Les Campagnes de Boisfleury, one-act comédie en vaudeville 1866: Les Deux Sourds, comedy 1867: L'Homme à la mode... de Caen 1868: Les Abrutis du feuilleton, one-act bouffonnerie

1868: La Permission de minuit, tableau militaire 1869: La Foire d'Andouilli, tableau populaire 1869: L'Astronome du Pont-Neuf, one-act pochade musicale 1870: Le Ver rongeur, three-act play 1870: Le Joueur de flute, vaudeville romain 1870: Le Canard à trois becs, opéra-bouffe 1871: Le Testament de Monsieur Crac, opéra-bouffe 1874: Les Parisiennes, four-act opéra-bouffe 1875: La Cruche cassée, opéra comique 1876: Le Jeu de l'amour et du... houzard, one-act comédie en vaudeville 1877: La Sorrentine, three-act opéra comique 1880: Les Mouchards, five-act play 1881: Les Tribunaux comiques, édition définitive 1881: Ça fait toujours plaisir 1886: Le Bureau du commissaire, foreword by Alexandre Dumas fils 1886: Un conseil judiciaire, three-act comedy 1886: Le Bracelet, one-act comedy 1888: Les Nouveaux Contes du Palais par la presse judiciaire parisienne 1888: Les Gaietés bourgeoises 1892: Le Monsieur au parapluie, novel 1894: Les Tribunaux du bon vieux temps, Causes grasses et causes salée 1895: Le Monde ou l'on rit