Charles Desnoyer

He made his debut as actor and author in 1827 with a comédie en vaudeville, Je serai comédien. He wrote many plays, comedies, dramas and melodramas for theaters on the boulevard du Crime in collaboration with other authors such as Eugène Nus, Léon Beauvallet or Adolphe d'Ennery. General manager of the Théâtre du Gymnase then at the Comédie-Française from 1841 to 1847, he became directing manager of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique in May 1852[2]

When he died, La Presse read:

Mr.Charles Desnoyers, director of the theater of the Ambigu-Comique and playwright, died in the night from Friday to Saturday, from a devastating stroke. His funeral took place today Sunday. As a result of this unfortunate death, the theater of the Ambigu, whose privilege becomes vacant, stood down yesterday[3]

• Gustave Vapereau, « Louis-François-Charles Desnoyer », Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, Hachette, 1858, p. 523, on Gallica
• Gustave Vapereau, L'Année littéraire et dramatique, vol.1, 1858, p. 450
• François Cavaignac, Eugène Labiche ou la Gaieté critique, 2003, p. 29
• Anne-Simone Dufief, Jean-Louis Cabanès, Le Roman au théâtre : Les Adaptations théâtrales au XIXe siècle, 2005, p. 64