Aimé Desprez

Aimé Desprez
Born	Claude-Aimé Desprez-Saint-Clair 5 April 1783 Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Died	26 April 1824 (aged 41) Herblay
Occupation	Vaudevilliste, chansonnier

Claude-Aimé Desprez-Saint-Clair (5 April 1783 - 26 April 1824) was a French vaudeville playwright and chansonnier. He himself had performed comedy plays and, around 1810, had integrated the troupe of the théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique under the name Saint-Clair.

Works

• Le Foyer ou le Couplet d’annonce, with Varez, vaudeville performed at the Théâtre des Jeunes-Artistes.
• Kikiki, avec Brazier et Varez, parodie de Tékêli, performed at the Nouveaux-Troubadours.
• Le Mariage de la Valeur, vaudeville, performed at the Ambigu-Comique.
• L’Espoir réalisé, vaudeville, ibid.
• Le Jardin d’Oliviers, ibid.
• Le Mariage sous d’heureux auspices, with Ferrière, vaudeville in 1 act, on the occasion of the marriage of the Duke of Beni, performed at Ambigu-Comique, Paris, 1816, in-8°.
• Marguerite de Straffort, ou le Retour à la royauté, with the same, melodrama in 3 acts, in prose, performed on the same stage, Paris, 1816, in-8°.
• Retournons à Paris, with Varez, comedy in 1 act mixed with vaudevilles, performed on the same stage, Paris, 1817, in-8°.
• Grégoire à Tunis, with Ferrière, vaudeville performed at the Ambigu-Comique.
• Monsieur de la Hure, vaudeville performed at the théâtre de la Gaîté.
• L’Homme à tout, with an anonymous author, vaudeville, théâtre de la Gaîté.
• Les Épaulettes de grenadier, with Edmond, comedy in 1 act, mixed with vaudevilles, théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Paris, 1820, in-8°.
• Paris, with Edmond, Crosnier and Émile de Plugette, impromptu mixed with couplets, on the occasion of the birth of his Royal Highness the duke of Bordeaux, théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 29 September 1820, Paris, 1820, in-8°.
• Le Bouffon dans l’embarras, with Ferrière, vaudeville, théâtre des Variétés.
• Les Ermites, with Edmond Crosnier and Michel-Nicolas Balisson de Rougemont, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Paris, 1821, in-8°.
• Le Protégé de tout le monde, with J. Dusaulchoy and Alexandre-Joseph Le Roy de Bacre, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 12 November 1822, Paris, 1822, in-8°.
• Le Mariage à la turque, vaudeville in 1 act, Paris, 1823, in-8°.
• Malbrouck, folie-vaudeville.
• La Grotte de Fingal, ou le Soldat mystérieux.

Sources

• Joseph-François Michaud: Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, t. 10, Paris, Madame C. Desplaces, 1852, 603 p.