Antoine Dorfeuille Explained

Birth Date:1 December 1754
Occupation:Actor
Playwright

Philippe-Antoine Dorfeuille (1 December 1754 – murdered 4 May 1795) was an 18th-century French actor, playwright, great traveller and revolutionary.

Biography

Born in Étoges 1 December 1754,[1] [2] Philippe-Antoine Dorfeuille became a comedian. At the end of the Ancien Régime, theater was divided between provincial theaters, boulevard theatres and large institutions to privileges (Opera de Paris, Comédie-française). Poorly recognized by the Parisian theater, Dorfeuille tried twice unsuccessfully to enter the Théâtre français, playing in boulevard venues (Variétés-Amusantes, Salle Favart), and led a career in the province.

In 1775, he was part of Prince Charles de Lorraine's troupe. In 1777, he was the first player in the company of Ghent, where he staged his own plays. In 1779 he gave Le Protecteur ridicule then revived L'Illustre voyageur in Maastricht. Then he became, in 1782, one of the actors of the Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand.[3]

Works

Theatre
Diary
Speeches, reports
Report of his wife

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Notes and References

  1. Revue critique d'histoire et de littérature, recueil mensuel, 1916, 2e série, vol. 81-82, (p. 101).
  2. In Sézanne, also in the Marne department according to Jérôme Croyet, Albitte: le tigre de l'Ain, Musnier-Gilbert, 2004, 351 pages, (p. 313) .
  3. Philippe Bourdin, Des lieux, des mots, les Révolutionnaires: le Puy-de-Dôme entre 1789 et 1799 Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, 1995, 512 pages, et 57, annexe de la note 132 .