Henri-François Dumolard


Henri-François Élisabeth Étienne Dumolard-Orcel, better known as Henri-François Dumolard was an early 19th-century French playwright.
The son of a judge, he lost his father aged fifteen and in order to make a living, to go to school and to help his mother, accepted a position of copyist. He became secretary general of the police administration and a lawyer. A member of the "Société académique des sciences" and a controller of the Public Treasury, his plays were presented on the mpost important Parisian stages of his time, including the Théâtre du Vaudeville, the Théâtre des Variétés, and the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin.

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