About Louis Ponet
Lived 1776 – 1845 (aged 68–69). Louis Ponet was a French playwright.
Louis Ponet (1776 in Paris – May 1845 in Paris) called Portelette, was a French novelist and playwright during the first half of the 19th century.
The son of a cook, he joined as an employee in the Treasury and then entered the administration of the Cirque-Olympique. His plays were presented inter alia at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique and the Cirque-Olympique.
Biography Louis Antoine Portelette was born on July 23, 1776, in Epinay-sous-Sénart and was baptized the following day . He is the son of Pierre Portelet, a baker, and his wife, Louise Garmand, a cook.
He started out as an employee at the Treasury and then joined the administration of the Cirque Olympique. His plays were performed at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique and the Cirque-Olympique, among other venues.
Works
1801: La Vaccine, folie-vaudeville, in 1 act and in prose, with Charles François Jean Baptiste Moreau, 1801 1801: L'Hermite de vingt ans, novel 1801: Les Flibustiers ou la Prise de Panama, melodrama in 2 acts 1802: Aménaïde, ou les martyrs de la foi, historical novel 1802: Adolphe et Jenny, historical fact 1803: La Fausse Isaure, ou Le château des Alpes, drama in 3 acts, in prose and extravaganza 1803: Fanchon toute seule, ou Un moment d'humeur, vaudeville in 1 act 1805: Jules et Améline, ou l'Orphelin de Venise, novel 1806: Se fâchera-t-il ? ou le Pari imprudent, comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles 1806: Statira, ou les Frères ambitieux, melodrama in 3 acts 1806: M. Botte tout seul, ou le Savetier bel-esprit, vaudeville in 1 act 1812: Le Jeune major, ou la Prise de Berg-op-Zoom, novel 1814: Les femmes parisiennes, ou, Le furet de société, novel 1821: Le Petit Georges, ou la Croix d'honneur, comédy in 1 act, with Ferdinand Laloue 1823: Le Quartier du Temple ou Mon ami Beausoleil, vaudeville in 1 act, with Benjamin Antier 1823: La lettre anonyme, comedy in 1 act and in prose, with Charles-Maurice Descombes and Henri Franconi 1823: Le pâtre, melodrama in 2 acts, with H. Franconi 1824: Le Grenier du poète, vaudeville in 1 act, with Antier 1824: Les hussards, ou le maréchal des logis piémontais, mimodrama in 2 acts 1825: Le vieillard, ou la révélation, melodrama in 2 acts 1826: La liquidation, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act and in prose, with Antier 1828: Le Drapeau, military melodrama in 2 acts, with Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois and Adolphe Franconi
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French playwright (1776-1845)
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Louis Ponet was born in 1776 in Paris.
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Louis Ponet was a playwright.
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