Henri de Tully

Henri de Tully
Born 1 May 1798
Paris
Died 12 July 1846(1846-07-12) (aged 48)
Paris
Occupation Librettist, plawright

Jules-Henry de Tully (1 May 1798 – 12 July 1846) was a French librettist and playwright.

Life

A deputy Commissioner of the king at the Monnaie de Paris, a member of the Société Lyrique,[1] an administrator of the Théâtre du Luxembourg,[2] he is a co-foundator with Théodore Ferdinand Vallou de Villeneuve of the Théâtre Beaumarchais (1835).[3]

His plays, often signed with the collective psudonyme Charles Henri[4] were performed on the most famous Parisian stages of the XIXth century (Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Antoine, Théâtre du Vaudeville etc.)

An editor at La Psyché, he also authored several songs.[5]

Works

Bibliography

References

  1. Joseph-Marie Quérard, La France littéraire ou dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, historiens..., 1838, (p. 575)
  2. L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux, Vol.47, 1903, (p. 222)
  3. Joseph Fr. Michaud,Louis Gabriel Michaud, Biographie universelle, vol.85, 1862,(p. 551)
  4. Pseudonyme of Tully and Jean Pierre Charles Perrot de Renneville
  5. Quérard, op.cit.
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