About Louis Péricaud
Lived 1835 – 1909 (aged 74). Louis Péricaud was a French chansonnier, actor, playwright and librettist.
Louis Jean Péricaud (10 June 1835, La Rochelle – 12 November 1909, Paris) was a 19th-century French stage actor, chansonnier, playwright, theatre historian and theatre director.
He was the father of actress Berthe Jalabert (1858–c.1935) and the uncle of actor Gustave Hamilton (1871–1951).
Works Selected plays 1864: Le Diable au Havre, grande revue-féerie in 4 acts and 5 tableaux, with Richard Lesclide, Théâtre du Havre, 13 January 1873: À cache-cache comedy in one act in verse and in prose, with Carle Le Dhuy, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 25 July 1876: Les Trois grâces, pochade musicale, with Lucien Delormel and Gaston Villemer, Alcazar d'Été 1877: La Jeunesse de Béranger, one-act operetta, music by Firmin Bernicat, L'Eldorado, 20 January 1878: Une aventure de Clairon, one-act operetta, with Gaston Villemer, L'Eldorado, 23 November 1881: Les Chevau-Légers, one-act operetta, with Lucien Delormel, music by Robert Planquette, L'Eldorado, 15 December 1885: Les Français au Tonkin, military play in 5 acts and 10 tableaux, including one prologue, with Gaston Marot and Henri Noellet, Paris, Théâtre du Château-d'Eau, 9 February 1886: Le Père Chasselas, drama in 5 acts, with Jean Athis, music by George Rose Théâtre du Château-d'Eau, 19 November 1887: Les Grenadiers de Mont-Cornette, opéra bouffe in 3 acts, with Lucien Delormel, music by Charles Lecocq, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, 4 January 1887: Polichinelle, drama in 5 acts and 8 tableaux, extractc from the Mansardes de Paris by Pierre Zaccone, with Ernest Vois, Bordeaux, Bouffes-Bordelais, 9 June 1889: Jack l'éventreur, drama in 5 acts and 7 tableaux, with Gaston Marot, Théâtre du Château-d'Eau, 30 August 1891: Madame la maréchale, play in 3 acts, with Alphonse Lemonnier, Théâtre de l'Ambigu, 8 June 1893: La Mère la Victoire, drama in 5 acts and 7 tableaux, with Gaston Marot, Théâtre du Château-d'Eau, 10 March 1894: La Belle limonadière, drama in 5 acts and 8 tableaux, with Émile Blondet, Théâtre de l'Ambigu, 20 July 1895: La Belle Grêlée, drama in 5 acts and 7 tableaux, from the novel by Alexis Bouvier, with Stéphen Lemonnier, Théâtre de la République, 10 December 1897: L'Hercule Farnèse, one-act comedy, Théâtre de Cluny, 2 September 1898: La Fille aux écus, drama in 5 acts, Théâtre de la République, 20 August 1898: La Turlutaine de Marjolin, comédie en vaudeville in 3 acts, with Maurice Soulié and Charles Darantière, Théâtre Déjazet, 30 November 1903: L'Hameçon, comédie en vaudeville in 3 acts, with Charles Darantière and Louis Bouvet, Théâtre-Trianon, 17 February 1906: L'Hôtellerie sanglante, drama in 5 acts and 7 tableaux, from the novel by Paul Mahalin, Théâtre Montparnasse, 20 January 1906: La Mioche dorée, drama in 5 acts, with Alphonse Lemonnier, Théâtre de la Gaîté, 14 June 1909! Pierre de lune, play in 5 acts and 7 tableaux, after Wilkie Collins, with Henri Desfontaines, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 15 June History of theatre 1863: Voyage à travers le théâtre 1897: Le Théâtre des Funambules, ses mimes, ses acteurs et ses pantomimes, depuis sa fondation jusqu'à sa démolition Text online 1908: Histoire de l'histoire des grands et des petits théâtres de Paris pendant la Révolution, le Consulat et l'Empire : Théâtre de Monsieur 1909: Histoire de l'histoire des grands et des petits théâtres de Paris pendant la Révolution, le Consulat et l'Empire : Théâtre des Petits comédiens de S. A. S. Mgr le Cte de Beaujolais Text online 1922: Le Panthéon des comédiens, de Molière à Coquelin aîné, preface by Coquelin aîné Text online
Some performances As director 1889: Xavier de Montépin and Jules Dornay: La Porteuse de pain, Théâtre de l'Ambigu, 11 January 1896: Eugène Brieux, Les Bienfaiteurs, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 22 October 1900: Edmond Haraucourt : Jean Bart, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 5 April 1901: Émile Bergerat : La Pompadour, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 13 November 1902: Auguste Maquet : La Maison du baigneur, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 6 October 1905: Octave Feuillet : Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre, Théâtre de la Gaîté, 12 September 1907: Jean Aicard : Le Manteau du Roi, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 22 October
Comedian 1881: Gaston Marot: Casse-Museau, Théâtre du Château-d'Eau, 13 December, as Casse-Museau 1890: L'Ogre by Jules de Marthold, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique 1893: Napoléon by Léopold Martin-Laya, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 5 December as Talleyrand. 1895: Le Collier de la reine by Pierre Decourcelle, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin 1896: Jacques Callot by Henri Caïn, Eugène Adenis and Édouard Adenis, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin 1897: Edmond Rostand : Cyrano de Bergerac, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 28 December. as Montfleury and a cadet de Gascogne. 1902: Paul Anthelme Bourde, Nos deux consciences, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 15 November, as Lancelin. 1905: Scarron de Catulle Mendès, directed by Jean Coquelin and Henry Hertz, music by Reynaldo Hahn, Théâtre de la Gaîté, as La Rancune 1905: Les Oberlé by Edmond Haraucourt after René Bazin, Théâtre de la Gaîté, as Philippe Oberlé. 1906: L'Attentat by Alfred Capus and Lucien Descaves, Théâtre de la Gaîté, as Postel.
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French chansonnier and actor (1835-1909)
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Louis Péricaud was born on 10 June 1835 in La Rochelle.
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Louis Péricaud died on 12 November 1909 in 3rd arrondissement of Paris.
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Louis Péricaud was a chansonnier, actor, playwright and librettist.
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Louis Péricaud was French.
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