About Thomas Sauvage
Lived 1794 – 1877 (aged 82–83). Thomas Sauvage was a French playwright, literary critic, dramaturge, librettist, director and writer.
Thomas-Marie-François Sauvage (; 1794 - May 1877) was a French dramatist, theatre director and critic.
Sauvage collaborated with Adolphe Adam (an opéra comique in two acts Le Toréador, 1849), Albert Grisar (Gilles ravisseur, 1838; L'Eau merveilleuse, 1839; Les Porcherons, 1850), François Bazin (Madelon, 1852), Napoléon Henri Reber (Le Père Gaillard, 1852) and Ambroise Thomas (Angélique et Médor, 1843; an opéra bouffon or opéra bouffe Le Caïd, 1849; La Tonelli, 1853; Le Carnaval de Venise, 1857; Gilles et Gillotin, 1874).
Sauvage was managing director of the Théâtre de l'Odéon from 1827 to 1828.
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French playwright
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Thomas Sauvage was born in 1794 in Paris.
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Thomas Sauvage died in 1877 in Paris.
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Thomas Sauvage was a playwright, literary critic, dramaturge, librettist, director and writer.
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