Paul Delair

Paul Alexandre Delair (24 October 1842 – 19 January 1894) was a 19th-century French playwright, poet, chansonnier and novelist.

Paul Delair
Born
Paul Alexandre Delair

24 October 1842
Died19 January 1894(1894-01-19) (aged 51)
Paris
Occupation(s)Poet
Playwright
Chansonnier

An administrator at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, he took an active part to the organization of the Exposition universelle of 1889. His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th-century, including the Théâtre du Vaudeville and the Comédie-Française.

Works

  • 1868: La Découverte, ode sur la navigation
  • 1870: Les Nuits et les réveils
  • 1872: L’Éloge d'Alexandre Dumas
  • 1872: La Voix d'en haut, one-act à-propos dramatique, in verse
  • 1879: La Louve d'Alençon, historical novel
  • 1880: Théâtre de campagne
  • 1880: Garin, five-act drama, in verse
  • 1881: Le Fils de Corneille, à propos in verse
  • 1882: Le Fils du charpentier, tale in verse
  • 1883: Les Rois en exil, 5-acts play, in 7 tableaux, with Alphonse Daudet
  • 1884: Le Centenaire de Figaro, à-propos in verse
  • 1884: Les Contes d'à présent avec une lettre de Coquelin aîné sur la poésie dite en public et l'art de la dire
  • 1885: Apothéose, one-act play in verse
  • 1885: Louchon
  • 1887: Délivrance, cantata, music by Théodore Dubois
  • 1887: Rabelais à Molière, verse
  • 1891: Hélène, drama in 4 acts, incidental music by André Messager
  • 1891: La Mégère apprivoisée, four-act comédie lyrique
  • 1891: L’Âme des fleurs !, poetry, incidental music by Jules Massenet
  • 1893: La Vie chimérique, poems
  • 1894: Chanson d'automne, music by André Messager
  • 1895: Testament poétique, poésies posthumes, with Sully Prudhomme
  • 1897: Chansons épiques (Geste de Guillaume)
  • 1898: Chanson d'hiver !, music by C. de Grandval
  • 1898: Parfums des tilleuls !, poetry, music by Clémence de Grandval
  • 1899: Théâtre inédit
  • 1899: Ma belle m'a dit, poetry, music by Charles Cuvillier
  • 1903: Illusion !, lamento, music by Flégier
  • 1905: Musique d'antan, music by Cuvillier
  • 1908: L'Ile des fleurs !, melody, singing and piano, music by Ange Flégier

Bibliography

  • Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus, André Berthelot, La Grande encyclopédie, vol.13, 1886, (p. 1161)
  • Gérard Walch, Anthologie des poètes français contemporains, 1916, (p. 53)
  • Robert Sabatier, Histoire de la poésie française du XIXe, vol.2, 1977, (p. 82)
  • Jacques Delair, Paul Delair (1842-1894), undated
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