Étienne-François Avisse
Étienne-François Avisse (4 August 1694, Paris – 23 December 1747, idem aged 51) was an 18th-century French playwright.
Avisse gave the Comédie-Française and the Comédie Italienne some comedies of which the most famous are:
- 1730: le Divorce ou les époux mécontents
- 1730: la Réunion forcée, composed about a famous trial the actress Marie-Anne Duclos had brought with her husband, Pierre-Jacques Chemin actor, so that their marriage be annulled
- 1731: la Gouvernante, critic of the théâtre larmoyant which inspired le Vieux célibataire by Collin d’Harleville ;
- 1742: le Valet embarrassé ou la vieille amoureuse, which gave the idea for the opéra comique Ma Tante Aurore ;
- 1743: les Petits-Maîtres that marked an epoch, since it was during the course of the performance that the actors imagined to give on the stage fireworks composed by the from Bologna ;
- les Faux Marquis ou les Bourgeois petits-maîtres, etc.
Sources[]
- Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des littératures, Paris, Hachette, 1876, p. 175.
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Categories:
- 18th-century French dramatists and playwrights
- Writers from Paris
- 1694 births
- 1747 deaths