Antoine-François Varner Explained

Antoine-François Varner
Birth Date:23 April 1789
Birth Place:Paris, France
Death Place:Paris, France
Nationality:French
Occupation:vaudevillist
Years Active:1817–1852
Known For:composed comédies en vaudeville
Education:Collège Sainte-Barbe, Paris
Awards:Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur

Antoine-François Varner (23 April 1789, in Paris[1] – 5 September 1854, in 3rd arrondissement of Paris[2]) was a 19th-century French vaudevillist.

Short biography

After he finished his studies at Collège Sainte-Barbe in Paris, Varner served for a while in the dragoons. He then joined the army and took part to the French invasion of Russia as deputy commissioner of war.

Unemployed under the Bourbon Restoration, he devoted himself to literature and composed comédies en vaudeville, either alone or in collaboration with Scribe, Ymbert, Bayard, Mélesville, Dupin, Delestre-Poirson, Dartois, Le Roux, Brazier, Duvert, Lauzanne, Deslandes and Prémaray.

After 1830, Varner obtained a position as chief clerk at the Prefecture of the Seine, a position that he lost after the French Revolution of 1848.

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Notes and References

  1. http://canadp-archivesenligne.paris.fr/archives_etat_civil/avant_1860_fichiers_etat_civil_reconstitue/fecr_visu_img.php?registre=V3E_N_2182&type=ECRF&&bdd_en_cours=etat_civil_rec_fichiers&vue_tranche_debut=AD075ER_V3E_N_02182_00501_C&vue_tranche_fin=AD075ER_V3E_N_02182_00552_C&ref_histo=36857&cote=V3E/N Archives reconstituées de la Ville de Paris, fiche 5/52
  2. http://canadp-archivesenligne.paris.fr/archives_etat_civil/avant_1860_fichiers_etat_civil_reconstitue/fecr_visu_img.php?registre=V3E_D_1452&type=ECRF&&bdd_en_cours=etat_civil_rec_fichiers&vue_tranche_debut=AD075ER_V3E_D_01452_00401_C&vue_tranche_fin=AD075ER_V3E_D_01452_00451_C&ref_histo=56120&cote=V3E/D Archives reconstituées de la Ville de Paris, fiche 4/51
  3. [Base Léonore]