Gabriel de Lurieu


Gabriel de Lurieu was a French author and playwright.
He signed with Armand d'Artois and Francis de Lurieu under the collective pseudonym "Sapajou", and under "J. Gabriel", "Jules", « Gabriel Lurieu » and « Monsieur Sapajou ». His brother Jules-Joseph-Gabriel Gonyn de Lurieu, with whom he is sometimes mistaken, was also a playwright.

Biography

The son of a captain of Dragons from a family of the minor nobility of the former Forez province, parallel to its inspector general career in the watch of Benevolent Institutions of the City of Paris, he started writing theatre plays. He authored numerous plays and libretti for opéras comiques, most of them written in collaboration, in particular with Théophile Marion Dumersan, Francis baron d'Allarde, Armand d'Artois, Nicolas Brazier, Eugène Scribe, Bernard Lopez, Élie Sauvage, Alexis Wafflard, Théodore-Ferdinand Vallou de Villeneuve, Auguste-Michel Benoît Gaudichot Masson, Adolphe Charles Adam and Emmanuel Théaulon.
In 1823, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, he married his cousin Louise-Charlotte Gonyn de Lurieu, daughter of a former officer became a magistrate.
When he died, the 7 February 1889 issue of le Figaro wrote:

Theatre

Gabriel de Lurieu wrote the libretto for the opera La perle du Brésil by Félicien David.
In 1815, he published a short piece of vaudeville, played in October 1814 at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris, entitled Le Tambour et la Vivandière. The book is available at the library of the University of Michigan.

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