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Jules Vernet

1792 – 1843

French painter

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About Jules Vernet

Lived 1792 – 1843 (aged 50–51). Jules Vernet was a French painter and playwright.

Jules Vernet (? - 1845) was a 19th-century French dramatist whose plays were presented on the most famous Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, the Théâtre du Vaudeville, the Théâtre des Variétés, and the Théâtre du Palais-Royal.

Works 1816: Les jumelles béarnaises, one-act comedy, mingled with couplets, with Émile Cottenet 1816: La Magnétismomanie, one-act comedie-foly mingled with couplets 1816: Les Rivaux impromptu ["sic"], one-act comedy in prose, mingled with couplets 1817: Ni l'un, ni l'autre, tableau villageois, in 1 act, mingled with couplets 1818: Une visite à ma tante, ou la Suite des Perroquets, one-act comedy, mingled with couplets, with Armand-François Jouslin de La Salle 1819: Le Mûrier, one-act vaudeville 1820: Cadet Roussel Troubadour, one-act comedy, with Joseph Aude and Ferdinand Laloue 1824: La Jeunesse d'un grand peintre, ou les Artistes à Rome, one-act comedy in prose, mingled with couplets, with W. Lafontaine 1825: Belphégor, ou le Bonnet du diable, one-act vaudeville-féerie, with Achille d'Artois and Henri de Saint-Georges 1833: Trois têtes dans un bonnet, scenes in episodes and vaudevilles 1834: Le Mari, la femme et le voleur, one-act vaudeville, with Adolphe de Leuven

He also was the author of a series of lithographs, with Godefroy Engelmann, dedicated to the actors at the Théâtre des Variétés (1840).

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Who was Jules Vernet?

French painter

When was Jules Vernet born?

Jules Vernet was born in 1792.

When did Jules Vernet die?

Jules Vernet died on 12 March 1843 in former 1st arrondissement of Paris, Paris.

What was Jules Vernet's occupation?

Jules Vernet was a painter and playwright.

What nationality was Jules Vernet?

Jules Vernet was French.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Jules Vernet

· Wikidata: Q21646844

· DBpedia: Jules Vernet

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