Pierre-Yves Barré was a French vaudevillist

Comédie en vaudeville

The Comédie en vaudeville was a theatrical entertainment which began in Paris towards the end of the 17th century, in which comedy was enlivened though lyrics using the melody of popular vaudeville songs.-Evolution:...

 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 chanson

Chanson

A chanson is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular. A singer specialising in chansons is known as a "chanteur" or "chanteuse" ; a collection of chansons, especially from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, is also known as a chansonnier.-Chanson de geste:The...

nier Pierre Laujon

Pierre Laujon

Pierre Laujon was a French playwright and chansonnier. He was uncle to the playwright Pierre-Yves Barré.-External links:* * - Source :...

 moved more and more towards a life in the theatre. With Piis

Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de Piis

Pierre-Antoine-Augustin , chevalier de Piis was a French dramatist and man of letters. With Pierre-Yves Barré he was one of the co-founders of Paris's Théâtre du Vaudeville....

, Jean-Baptiste Radet

Jean-Baptiste Radet

Jean-Baptiste Radet was a French vaudevillist.Prior to the French Revolution, he worked in the library of the duchesse de Villeroy, allowing him to indulge his literary tastes...

 and Desfontaines-Lavallée

Desfontaines-Lavallée

François-Georges Fouques Deshayes , known as Desfontaines or Desfontaines-Lavallée, was a French writer and playwrightBefore the French Revolution he worked as a royal censor, secretary and librarian...

, in 1792 he founded the théâtre du Vaudeville

Théâtre du Vaudeville

The Théâtre du Vaudeville was a theatre in Paris. It opened on 12 January 1792 on rue de Chartres. Its directors, Piis and Barré, mainly put on "petites pièces mêlées de couplets sur des airs connus", including vaudevilles....

 (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" but in 1805 commanded him to go to Boulogne-sur-Mer

Boulogne-sur-Mer

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 to entertain the officers of the invasion force against England

Napoleon's invasion of England

Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom at the start of the War of the Third Coalition, although never carried out, was a major influence on British naval strategy and the fortification of the coast of south-east England. French attempts to invade Ireland in order to destabilise the...

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Works

• Cassandre, 1780.
• Arlequin aficheur.
• Mr. Guillaume ou le voyageur inconnu, 1800.
• Lantara ou le peintre au cabaret, 1809