Michel Delaporte

Pierre Michel Delaporte (5 September 1806 – 30 September 1872) was a 19th-century French playwright, painter, lithographer and political caricaturist.

Biography He was educated in Amiens and in 1824 became a student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault. After he suffered from an eye disease, he was forced to give up painting and thus turned to writing.

His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century including the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, and the Théâtre des Variétés.

He also created numerous lithographies, illustrations and prints which were published in many newspapers and magazines, such as La Caricature (1830–1843) or Le Figaro.

Works

La Fille de l'air dans son ménage, vaudeville-féerie in 1 act, with Honoré, 1837 Le Cousin du Pérou, comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Lubize and Théodore Muret, 1837 Le Parisien, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, 1837 Argentine, comedy in 2 acts, mingled with couplets, with Charles Dupeuty and Gabriel de Lurieu, 1839 L'Amour d'un ouvrier, drame-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Hippolyte Lévesque, 1839 La Bergère d'Ivry, drame-vaudeville in 5 acts, with de Lurieu, 1839 L'Argent, la gloire et les femmes, vaudeville extravaganza, in 4 acts and 5 tableaux, with the Cogniard brothers, 1840 L'Andalouse de Paris, vaudeville in 1 act, with Louis Bergeron, 1840 La Mère Godichon, vaudeville in 3 acts, with Lubize, 1840 Job l'afficheur, vaudeville in 2 acts, with the Cogniard brothers, 1840 Pile ou face, vaudeville in 2 acts, with Lubize, 1840 Les Amours de Psyché, fantasie play, mingled with song, in 3 acts and 10 tableaux; preceded by l'Olympe, prologue, with Charles Dupeuty, 1841 Un Premier ténor, folie-vaudeville in 1 act, 1841 Les Comédiens et les marionnettes, vaudeville in 2 acts, with Dupeuty, 1842 Un Ménage de garçon, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Laurençot, 1842 Colin-Tampon, vaudeville in 1 act, with Adolphe d'Ennery, 1844 Estelle et Némorin, pastorale bouffonne in 2 acts, mingled with songs, with Charles Potier, 1844 Un Tribunal de femmes, vaudeville in 1 act, with Laurençot, 1844 Le Diable à quatre, vaudeville-féerie in 3 acts, with Ernest Jaime, 1845 Les Amours de Monsieur et Madame Denis, comédie vaudeville in 2 acts, with Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, 1845 Cabrion ! ou les Infortunes de Pipelet, folie-vaudeville in 1 act, 1845 La Fille à Nicolas, comédie-vaudeville in 3 acts, with Laurençot, 1845 La Samaritaine, vaudeville in 1 act, with de Lurieu, 1845 Henri IV, drame historique in 3 acts, 16 tableaux and prologue, with Amable de Saint-Hilaire, 1846 La Nouvelle Héloïse, drama in 3 acts, mingled with song, with Jacques-François Ancelot, 1846 Ah ! que l'amour est agréable !, vaudeville in 5 tableaux, with Hippolyte-Jules Demolière and Charles Henri Ladislas Laurençot, 1847 Les Femmes de Paris, ou l'Homme de loisir, drama in 5 acts, in prose, preceded by Un duel sans témoins, prologue, with Virginie Ancelot, 1848 Chodruc-Duclos, ou l'Homme à la longue barbe, melodrama in 5 acts and 8 tableaux, with Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaez, 1850 L'Île des bêtises, vaudeville-revue of the year 1849, in 3 acts and 5 tableaux, with Honoré, 1850 Le Raisin malade, folie fantastique in 1 act, mingled with couplets, 1850 Les Quenouilles de verre, féerie-vaudeville in 3 acts and 8 tableaux, with Maurice Alhoy, 1851 La Femme de ménage, ou la Tabatière de Polichinelle, vaudeville in 1 act, 1851 La Course au plaisir, revue de 1851, in 2 acts and 3 tableaux, with Gaston de Montheau and Théodore Muret, 1851 Les Reines des bals publics, folie-vaudeville in 1 act, with de Montheau, 1852 La Fille de Madame Grégoire, vaudeville in 1 act, with de Montheau, 1853 Un Moyen dangereux, comedy in 1 act, mingled with song, with Jean-François-Alfred Bayard, 1854 Les Papillons et la chandelle, vaudeville in 1 act, 1854 Le Bois de Boulogne, revue-féerique, mingled with couplets, in 2 acts and 5 tableaux, with Paul Duport, 1855 Le Cousin du Roi, comedy in 2 acts, mingled with couplets, with Laurencin, 1855 Toinette et son carabinier, croquis musical in 1 act, 1856 Le Billet de faveur, comédie-vaudevilles in 3 acts, with Laurecin and Eugène Cormon, 1856 Le Marquis d'Argentcourt, comédie-vaudeville in 3 acts, with Dupeuty, 1857 Rose la fruitière, vaudeville in 3 acts, 1857 Méphistophélès, saynète musicale, 1858 La Nouvelle Hermione, comedy mingled with couplets, in 1 act, with Laurencin, 1858 Il n'y a plus de grisettes !, vaudeville in 1 act, with Laurencin, 1859 Le Masque de velours, vaudeville in 2 acts, 1859 Les Trois fils de Cadet-Roussel, comédie-vaudeville in 3 acts, with Laurencin and Charles Varin, 1860 Ah ! Que l'amour est agréable !, vaudeville in 5 acts, with Varin, 1860 Un Hercule et une jolie femme, vaudeville in 1 act, with Varin, 1861 Ma sœur Mirette, comedy in 2 acts, mingled with song, with Varin, 1861 L'Auteur de la pièce, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Varin, 1862 Monsieur et Madame Denis, opéra comique in 1 act, with Laurencin, music by Jacques Offenbach, 1862 La Comtesse Mimi, comedy in 3 acts, with Varin, 1862 Un Ténor pour tout faire !, opérette in 1 act, with Varin, 1863 Une Femme qui bat son gendre, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Varin, 1864 Une Femme, un melon et un horloger !, vaudeville in 1 act, with Varin, 1864 Les Ficelles de Montempoivre, vaudeville in 3 acts, with Varin, 1864 Les Filles mal gardées, comedy in 3 acts, with Varin, 1865 Le Sommeil de l'innocence, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Varin, 1865 La Bande noire, drama in 7 acts, with Paul Foucher and Auguste Delaporte, 1866 Le Baudet perdu, paysannerie in 1 act, with Varin, 1866 Madame Ajax, play in 3 acts, with Varin, 1866 L'Ange de mes rêves !, vaudeville in 3 acts, with Varin, 1867 Ces Scélérates de bonnes, vaudeville in 3 acts, with Laurencin, 1867 La Dame aux giroflées, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Varin, 1867 Le Dernier des Gaillard, vaudeville in 1 act, with Varin, 1867 Madame Pot-au-feu, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Varin, 1869