Mathurin-Joseph Brisset

Mathurin-Joseph Brisset (22 November 1792 – 7 June 1856) was a French writer, poet, political journalist and playwright of the first half of the 19th century.

Biography A bodyguard attached to the company of Havré, then an infantry officer during the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, he took part to the Spanish campaign (1823) where he was awarded the cross of first class knight of the Order of Saint Ferdinand. He left the army after the July Revolution of 1830 and landed as political critic by the Gazette de France. He also held there theatrical criticism and devoted himself entirely to writing. Thus, he published a considerable number of historical novels and his plays were presented on the most famous Parisian stages of his time: Théâtre des Nouveautés, Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Gymnase dramatique etc.

Works

1816: Les Dames du Lis, poem 1818: La Statue de Henri IV, ode 1818: La Salle des Maréchaux 1820: La Messe de délivrance 1820: Ernest 1821: Le Traité de paix, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Achille d'Artois 1822: Le Départ d'une diligence, tableau épisodique in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Edmond Rochefort 1822: Honneur et séduction, melodrama in 3 acts, with Louis-Charles Caigniez 1822: Le Zodiaque de Paris, à propos du Zodiaque de Denderah, vaudeville-épisodique in 1 act, with Ferdinand Langlé 1823: Le Magasin de lumière, scènes à-propos de l'éclairage par le gaz, with Ferdinand Langlé, Ramond de la Croisette and Emmanuel Théaulon 1824: Le Retour à la ferme, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Achille d'Artois 1825: Madrid, ou observations sur des mœurs et usages des Espagnols au commencement du XIXe siècle, with Théodore Anne 1825: Les Singes, ou la Parade dans le salon, vaudeville in 1 act, with Espérance Hippolyte Lassagne and Edmond Rochefort 1826: La pêche de Vulcain, ou L'île des fleuves, vaudeville, with Espérance Hippolyte Lassagne and Edmond Rochefort 1827: Le coureur de veuves, comedy in 2 acts 1827: Les Dernières amours, tableau-vaudeville in 1 act 1827: Les Rendez-vous, comédie-vaudeville 1827: Paris et Londres, Comedy in 4 tableaux, with Armand d'Artois 1828: Le Peintre et le courtisan, anecdotical comédie-vaudeville en 1 act 1828: L'Anneau de la fiancée, lyrical drama in 3 acts, with Felice Blangini 1829: Angiolina ou la Femme du doge, drama in 3 acts 1829: Les Deux Raymond, ou les Nouveaux Ménechmes, 6-chapter novel, with Victor Ducange 1835: Le Mauvais œil, tradition dalmate, suivi d'une nouvelle française 1837: Les Templiers, 1313 1838: Le Génie d'une femme 1840: François de Guise, 1563 1841: Le Balafré, 1572-1587 1843: Le cabinet de lecture 1844: Le Béarnais 1844: La Femme d'un ministre, Mme Roland. 1793 1845 Le Petit roi 1846: Madame Jean, 1846 1847: Les Concini, 1616-1617 1849: La Maréchale de Saint-André 1854: Jacquot 1854: M. de Beauregard 1854: La Maréchale de Saint-André 1859: Hugues-le-Cadavre, mystère du XIe siècle