Dumanoir

Dumanoir was born in Capesterre-Belle-Eau, Guadeloupe. He was the son of Mrs. Pinel-Dumanoir, whose family planted the palm trees lining the Allée Dumanoir in Guadeloupe.[1] He left Guadeloupe in 1816. Dumanoir wrote in the theatrical genre of Comédie en vaudevilles. He was director of the Théâtre des Variétés from 1837 to 1839. In 1844, he wrote in collaboration with Adolphe d'Ennery, an eponymous drama about Don César de Bazan, one of the characters in Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo.

He died in Pau.

Le Petit Poucet by M M Dumanoir and Clairvile; Le général Tom Pouce au Théatre du Vaudeville.

[2]

• Don Caesar de Bazan, directed by Robert G. Vignola (1915, based on the play Don César de Bazan)
• Don Cesar, Count of Irun, directed by Luise Kolm and Jacob Fleck (Austria, 1918, based on the play Don César de Bazan)
• The Adventurer, directed by J. Gordon Edwards (1920, based on the play Don César de Bazan)
• Rosita, directed by Ernst Lubitsch (1923, based on the play Don César de Bazan)
• The Spanish Dancer, directed by Herbert Brenon (1923, based on the play Don César de Bazan)
• Don Cesare di Bazan, directed by Riccardo Freda (Italy, 1942, based on the play Don César de Bazan)
• The Seventh Sword, directed by Riccardo Freda (Italy, 1962, based on the play Don César de Bazan)

• – Officer of the Legion of Honour  France 14 August 1965[6]

• American-Cyclopaedia-Pinel
• Brown University Library – Dumanoir