Pierre-Yves Barré

Pierre-Yves Barré(17 April 1749, Paris - 2 May 1832, Paris) was a French vaudevillist and song-writer.

Life

He began life as a lawyer to the French parliament, then court clerk in Pau, but as the nephew of the chansonnier Pierre Laujon moved more and more towards a life in the theatre. With Piis, Jean-Baptiste Radet and Desfontaines-Lavallée, in 1792 he founded the théâtre du Vaudeville (which he headed until 1815, replaced by Marc-Antoine Désaugiers), then on rue de Chartres-Saint-Honoré. Bonaparte was at first "discontented with his theatre due to anti-Republican allusions which he made every evening"[1] but in 1805 commanded him to go to Boulogne-sur-Mer to entertain the officers of the invasion force against England.

Works

References

  1. L. de Lanzac de Laborie, Paris sous Napoléon-Spectacles et Musées, Paris, 1913, pp. 152-156
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