Antony Béraud

Anthony Béraud
Born Antoine-Nicolas Béraud
11 January 1791
Aurillac
Died 6 February 1860(1860-02-06) (aged 69)
Paris
Occupation Military, chansonnier, writer, poet, historian and playwright.

Antony Béraud, real name Antoine-Nicolas Béraud, (11 January 1791 – 6 February 1860) was a French military, chansonnier, writer, poet, historian and playwright.

Life

In 1809 he entered the École militaire de Saint-Cyr and became second lieutenant. He was then sent to garrison at Milan and took part to the last campaigns of the Empire. Captain, he was captured at the battle of the Mincio River on 8 February 1814. Captain of staff during the Hundred Days, he served at Grenoble then participated to the battle of Waterloo and battle of Ligny where he gained the rank of battalion chief.

Dismissed, degraded and put on half pay under Louis XVIII, he then embarked on literature and collaborated to numerous magazines : Revue et gazette des théâtres, La Minerve, L’Abeille, L'Indépendant, La Boussole politique, La Pandore, Le Siècle, Les Salons de Paris, les Annales de l’école française et des beaux-arts etc.

His poems and songs directed against the Bourbon earned him six months' imprisonment. He was particularly active in the Trois Glorieuses, was awarded the croix de juillet and was returned his Légion d'honneur. He was also reinstated as battalion commander of the National Guard of Paris, a position he would leave in 1834.

In 1832 he was awarded a medal of the city of Paris for his bravery during the cholera epidemic.

Managing director of the Théâtre Saint-Marcel (1839), then of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu (1840-1849), in 1849 he became director of the prison of Belle-Isle en mer (1849-1850).

His plays were performed on the most important Parisian stages: Théâtre de l'Ambigu, Théâtre de la Gaîté, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Théâtre de l'Odéon, etc...

Works

Theatre

  • Les Deux coups de sabre, drama in 3 acts, with Charles Puysaye, 1822
  • Cardillac ou Le quartier de l'Arsenal, melodrama in three acts, with Léopold Chandezon, 1824
  • Les Aventuriers, ou le Naufrage, melodrama in 3 acts, with Léopold Chandezon, 1824
  • Cagliostro, melodrama in 3 acts, with Léopold Chandezon, 1825
  • Les Prisonniers de guerre, melodrama in 3 acts, with Chandezon, 1825
  • La Redingotte et la perruque, ou le Testament, mimodrama in 3 acts à grand spectacle, with Chandezon, 1825
  • Charles Stuart, ou le Château de Woodstock, melodrama in 3 acts, à grand spectacle, with Eugène Cantiran de Boirie, 1826
  • Le Corregidor ou les Contrebandiers, melodrama in 3 acts, with Chandezon, 1826
  • Le monstre et le magicien, melodrama féerique in three acts, with Merle, 1826
  • Le monstre et le magicien, melodrama, with Jean-Toussaint Merle and Crosnier, 1826
  • Irène ou la prise de Napoli, melodrame in 2 acts, with Chandezon, 1827
  • Le vétéran, pièce militaire in 2 acts, with Chandezon, 1827
  • Faust, drama in 3 acts, with Jean-Toussaint Merle and Charles Nodier, 1828
  • La Duchesse et le page, comedy in 3 acts, in prose, 1828
  • Le Siège de Saragosse, pièce militaire in 2 acts à grand spectacle, 1828
  • Tom-Wild, ou le Bourreau, melodrama in 3 acts, with Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, 1828
  • Le Fou, drama in 3 acts, with Alexis Decomberousse and Gustave Drouineau, 1829
  • Nostradamus, drama in 3 acts and 6 parts, with Valory, 1829
  • Adrienne Lecouvreur, with Valory, 1830
  • Guido Reni ou Les artistes, play in 5 acts and in verses, with Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, 1833
  • Le gars, drama in five acts and six tableaux, 1837
  • Lélia, drama in 3 acts, in prose, with Jules-Édouard Alboize de Pujol, 1838
  • La verrerie de la gare, drame anecdotique et populaire in 3 acts, 1838
  • Le prêteur sur gages, drama in trois acts, with Henri de Saint-Georges, 1838
  • Napoléon, drame historique in 3 acts and 5 tableaux, with Théophile Marion Dumersan, 1839
  • Meurtre et dévouement, drama in 3 acts, 1839
  • Édith ou La veuve de Southampton, drama in 4 acts, with Alphonse Brot, 1840
  • Francesco Martinez, drama in three acts, 1840
  • Le maître à tous, comedy in 2 acts, with Charles Potier, 1840
  • La Lescombat, drama in 5 acts, with Brot, 1841
  • Le Miracle des roses, drama in 16 tableaux, with Hippolyte Hostein, 1844
  • Le Rôdeur, ou les Deux apprentis, drama in 3 acts, with Chandezon, 1844
  • Hortense de Blengie, comédie-drame in 3 acts, with Frédéric Soulié, 1848
  • Entre l'enclume et le marteau,comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, 1850
  • Taconnet, ou l'Acteur des boulevards, vaudeville in 5 acts, with Clairville, 1852
  • Un Festival, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, 1853
  • Les Guides de Kinrose, drame-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Édouard Brisebarre, 1854

Bibliography

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