About Léonard Tousez
Lived 1788 – 1826 (aged 37–38). Léonard Tousez was a French playwright.
Léonard Décade Tousez (; 1788–1826) was a French actor and playwright of the 19th century.
Biography Tousez was born in Paris. An actor at the Théâtre des Variétés (1816-1826), he played the handsome young men in Les Bolivars et les Morillos ou Les amours de Belleville (1819) by Armand d'Artois and Gabriel de Lurieu as well as, inter alia, in Le témoin ou La Porte-Maillot (1820) by Eugène Scribe, Mélesville and Xavier Boniface.
In 1818, he married Charlotte Zoë Régnier de la Brière, an actress and François-Joseph Regnier's mother.
He took part in the composition of several plays of the boulevard theatre genre which were presented at the Théâtre du Gymnase dramatique and the Théâtre du Vaudeville.
He lost reason while performing in 1826 and died in the asylum at Charenton.
Works 1820: Les bons gendarmes, poème épique en deux chants, with Charles Odry 1823: L'atelier de peinture, tableau-vaudeville in 1 act, with Sewrin 1823: Le Chevalier d'honneur, comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Sewrin and Nicolas Gersin 1823: Le Lithographe, ou les Scènes populaires, vaudeville in 1 act, with Sewrin 1825: Le Point d'honneur, vaudeville in 1 act, with Benjamin Antier
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French playwright (1788-1826)
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