Étienne-François Avisse

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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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