Frédéric de Courcy
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Frédéric de Courcy, born Frédéric Charlot de Courcy (16 August 1796, Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 - 6 May 1862, Paris) was a French man of letters.

Life

The son of Augustin Charlot de Courcy and Adélaïde Vallet, in 1826 he became sous-chef of La Poste
La Poste
La Poste may refer to:* La Poste, the postal service of France* La Poste Suisse, the French name for Swiss Post* La Poste, the French name for De Post - La Poste - Die Post of Belgium* La Poste Tunisienne, the Tunisian postal service...

's personnel department (under Jean-Baptiste Tenant de Latour).

He was the author of several vaudeville
Vaudeville
Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...

s, often in collaboration, including :
  • L’Heureuse Moisson (1817)
  • Les Deux Aveugles (1823)
  • Le Courrier de la malle (1832), one of the first appearances of the famous character Joseph Prudhomme
    M. and Mme. Joseph Prudhomme
    Monsieur and Madame Prudhomme were a pair of French caricature characters of the 19th century, created by Henry Monnier. They were a bourgeois couple....

    , played by the character's creator Henry Monnier
    Henry Monnier
    Henry-Bonaventure Monnier was a French playwright, caricaturist and actor.-Life:After studying at the Lycée Bonaparte, he frequented the workshops of Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson and Antoine-Jean Gros. He installed himself in London in 1822 and return to France 5 years later...

  • Le Vol à la roulade (1851)
  • Le voyage à Vienne, etc.


Until his death, he lived with his partner Adélaïde Alexandrine Verteuil. They never married, and had two sons - Alexandre Frédéric, known as an illustrator, and Charles Henry.

Sources

  • Dictionnaire de biographie française.
  • Notice on Généanet

External links

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