Jean-Baptiste Gondelier (8 December 1792 in Dijon – 31 October 1878)[1] was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist.

Biography

An engraver and lithographer[2] at 110 Passage du Caire in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, Jean-Baptiste Gondelier received a patent in letters on 12 septembre 1828.[3][4] A widow in 1820 of Anne-Françoise-Esther Morisset,[5] he remarried on 25 September 1824 with Joséphine Foliot.[6]

The publisher, among others, of the Constitutionnel and the Gazette des théâtres, He permanently ceased his activities as a printer-lithographer on 8 July 1852.[7] His plays were presented at the Théâtre du Vaudeville and the Théâtre des Variétés.

He married Marie Rosine Palmyre Blancvillain. He died in Laon, Aisne, in 1878.[8]

Works

  • 1826: Le Dilettante, ou le Siège de l'Opéra, folie-vaudeville in five little acte, à propos du Siège de Corinthe, with Emmanuel Théaulon and Théodore Anne, music by Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, at the Théâtre du Vaudeville (6 November)
  • 1826: La Mère au bal et la fille à la maison, two-act comédie en vaudevilles, with Emmanuel Théaulon, at the Théâtre du Vaudeville (30 November)
  • 1826: Paris et Bruxelles, ou le Chemin à la mode, two-act comedy in vaudevilles, with Emmanuel Théaulon and Étienne Crétu, at Theatre des Variétés (4 December)
  • 1827: Le Courrier des théâtres, ou la Revue à franc-étrier, folie-vaudeville in five relais, with Théodore Anne and Emmanuel Théaulon, at Théâtre du Vaudeville (24 February)
  • 1827: La Girafe, ou Une journée au jardin du Roi, tableau-à-propos in vaudevilles, with Emmanuel Théaulon and Théodore Anne, at Théâtre du Vaudeville (7 July)
  • 1827: Faust, lyrical drama in three acts after the tragedy by Goethe, lyrics by Théaulon and Gondelier, music by Philippe-Alexis Béancourt, at the Théâtre des Nouveautés (27 October)

References

  1. Fiche Gondelier Jean-Baptiste. Editions en ligne de l'Ecole des Chartes, Dictionnaire des imprimeurs-lithographes du XIX° siècle.
  2. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France attributes him two lithographs published in 1821 representing caricatures of English people (Grotesque n° 6 and Grotesque n° 7). Bibliothèque nationale, département des estampes. Inventaire du fonds français après 1800 by Jean Adhémar and Jacques Lethève, volume 9, p. 258, Paris, 1955, Gallica.
  3. Administration. Bibliographie de la France, ou Journal général de l'imprimerie et de la librairie, XVII° année, 1828, (p. 750), available at Gallica.
  4. Gondolier ceded his patent to Pollet, 364, rue Saint-Denis, in 1837. Annuaire de l'imprimerie de 1854, (p. 37), Gallica.
  5. Inventory after death of 3 March 1820. National Archives, virtual inventory room, minutes and directories of the notary Jean Charles Ducorps.
  6. Fiche de mariage n° 11/51. Alphabetic file of the reconstituted registry of the City of Paris, year 1824.
  7. Nominations d'imprimeurs-lithographes, etc. Bibliographie de la France, ou Journal général de l"imprimerie et de la librairie, XLI° year, 1852, (p. 435), available at Gallica.
  8. Aisne, France Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1408–1930
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