Ramond de la Croisette

Paul Alexis Raymond de la Croisette, called Charles (Paris, 14 April 1796 – Paris, 10 July 1849) was a 19th-century French playwright.

Biography An archivist at the French Chamber of Deputies, his plays, often signed Charles, were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his lifetime: Théâtre de l'Odéon, Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre du Gymnase-Dramatique etc.

Following a trial with the management of the Théâtre du Vaudeville related to the play La leçon de Mathématiques, none of his plays was ever presented. In 1834, he was admitted yet in the which may suggest that he still published at that time under a pen name which has not been identified.

Œuvres

1817: L'hôtel Bazancourt, vaudeville en 1 acte, 1817 1820: Les marieurs écossais ou Une matinée à Gretna-Green, comédie vaudeville in 1 act 1820: La Suite du Folliculaire ou l'Article en suspens, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Armand d'Artois, Langlé, Eugène Scribe and Théaulon 1821: Le Baptême de village, ou le Parrain de circonstance, vaudeville in 1 act, with de Bury, Chavagnac and Ledoux 1821: La Créancière, comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Emmanuel Théaulon 1822: Les Femmes romantiques, comédie-vaudeville, avec Théaulon, 1822 1822: Une journée à Montmorency, tableau-vaudeville in 1 act, with Théaulon and Ferdinand Langlé, 1822 1822: Une visite aux Invalides, à-propos mingled with couplets on the occasion of Saint-Louis's day 1823: Le Magasin de lumière, scènes à-propos de l'éclairage par le gaz, with Langlé, Mathurin-Joseph Brisset and Théaulon 1823: Le comte d'Angoulême, ou Le siège de Gênes, with Fulgence de Bury, Michel-Joseph Gentil de Chavagnac and Paul Ledoux 1823: Le siège de Gênes, comédie héroïque in 2 acts, with Chavagnac, Ledoux and de Bury 1824: Mr Manuel, 1824 1824: Mes derniers vingt sols, vaudeville in 1 act, with Théaulon 1824: Grétry, opéra-comique in 1 act, with de Bury and Ledoux 1825: Le Béarnais, ou la Jeunesse de Henri IV, comedy in 1 act and in free verses, with de Bury and Ledoux 1826: La Fête du roi, ou le Remède à la goutte, comedy in 1 act and in verses, with Paul Ledoux 1827: La leçon de mathématiques, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act 1828: J'épouse ma femme, vaudeville in 1 act undated: Mon rêve, ou J'étais ministre

Honours Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (14 mai 1845) Officier de la Légion d'honneur (23 mai 1848)