Espérance Hippolyte Lassagne


Espérance Hippolyte Lassagne was a French chansonnier and playwright during the first half of the 19th century.

Biography

An employee at the Palais-Royal in the administration of the Duke of Orleans in Paris, he had under him Alexandre Dumas then hired as a copyist, whom he introduced into the literary life. He wrote with him the play La Noce et l'Enterrement which would be presented at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin in 1826.
His plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of his fifetime: Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre de l'Odéon, Théâtre des Variétés etc.

Works