Michel Dieulafoy


Joseph-Marie-Armand-Michel Dieulafoy was a French librettist and playwright.

Biography

He was received lawyer in Toulouse and he seemed destined to the bar where he had started. In his relatives, owners of large properties in the colonies drew him to the New World, and he moved to Santo Domingo where fortunate speculations already promised him a brilliant fortune. But the emancipation of slaves destroyed his hopes, and his plantations were devastated, his house burned by his rebellious Negroes. He escaped the massacre du Cap in 1793 and fled to Philadelphia where he stayed there for a while, then returned to France where he devoted himself to dramatic poetry, mainly the vaudeville genre.
The Théâtre du Vaudeville saw his success since 1798, that is to say at the time of his greatest vogue. He also gave various plays to most theaters of Paris.
Dieulafoy was and remained a royalist, even under the imperial government.

Selected works