Noël Aubin

Noël Aubin (23 December 1754 in Tours – 18 August 1835 in Tours) was an 18th/19th-century French bookseller-publisher and playwright.

The son of a waxmaster whose profession he first continued, he was arrested in Tours and released in then established himself as publisher and bookseller in Paris (1795), working in association with printer-bookseller J.-M. Chevet.

Between 1799 and 1802, he published several comedies under the pen names Desfougerais or Desfougerets and published (1793–1797) and translated (1795–1802) various works, especially by British authors such as James Harrington, William Cooke or Oliver Goldsmith. His own plays were then given at the Théâtre du Vaudeville.

He put an end at his bookselling activity (1814), and returned to Tours where he published, as well in Blois and Loches, several theatre plays. He died in Tours in August 1835.

Works 1798: Le Rosier, song, music by Émile Deschamps 1799: Le Déménagement du Salon ou le Portrait de Gilles, comédie-parade in 1 act and in comédie en vaudeville, with René de Chazet, François-Pierre-Auguste Léger and Emmanuel Dupaty 1799: Gilles aéronaute, ou L'Amérique n'est pas loin, comédie-parade in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Armand Gouffé ans Jean-Michel-Pascal Buhan 1799: Les Deux Bluettes, comedy 1800: Chamfortiana, ou Recueil choisi d'anecdotes piquantes et de traits d'esprit de Chamfort 1802: Pannard, clerc de procureur, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act and in prose 1815: Les Avoués en voyage, ou la Méprise, comedy in 2 acts and in prose 1824: L'Ami des pauvres et de son pays, ou l'Ennemi des abus, comedy 1824: La Maladie de l'imagination, peinte par l'homme de la nature, comedy 1824: Les Trois Domiciles, ou le Pauvre rentier, comedy in 2 acts and in prose