Ferdinand de Villeneuve

Ferdinand de Villeneuve
Ferdinand de Villeneuve and his brother Julien's grave at the cimetière du Père-Lachaise
Born	Théodore-Ferdinand Vallou de Villeneuve 5 June 1801 Boissy-Saint-Léger
Died	27 September 1858 (aged 57) Paris
Occupation	Dramatist
Years active	1822 – 1855

Ferdinand de Villeneuve (5 June 1801 – 27 September 1858) was an 19th-century French playwright.

Short biography

He made his debut at theatre age 21 by partnering with Charles Dupeuty and obtained success from 1823. In 1825, he founded the newspaper La Nouveauté with Dupeuty, Amable de Saint-Hilaire and Musnier Desclozeaux, a publication which became a daily.

Co-director of the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin with Anténor Joly from December 1835, he then directed, still with Joly, the Théâtre de la Renaissance in 1838 with its own funds.

His plays were presented on several Parisian stages of the XIXth century, including the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, the Théâtre du Vaudeville, and the Théâtre des Variétés.

The painter and photographer Julien Vallou de Villeneuve was his brother.

Works

• 1822: L'Arracheur de dents, one-act folie-parade, mingled with couplets, with Charles Dupeuty
• 1822: Fille et garçon, ou la Petite orpheline, one-act comédie-vaudeville, with Dupeuty
• 1822: Le Premier prix, ou les Deux artistes, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Dupeuty
• 1823: L'Actrice, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Dupeuty
• 1823: Mon ami Christophe, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Dupeuty and W. Lafontaine
• 1823: Le Oui des jeunes filles, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, imitée de l'espagnol, with Jouslin de La Salle
• 1823: Le Sergent de Chevert, vaudeville historique in 1 act, with Dupeuty
• 1824: Les Acteurs à l'essai, comédie-vaudeville-épisodique in 1 act, with Dupeuty
• 1824: Léonide ou La Vieille de Suresne, comédie vaudeville in 3 acts, with Dupeuty and Amable de Saint-Hilaire
• 1824: Les Modistes, tableau-vaudeville in 1 act, with Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson and Dupeuty
• 1824: Ourika ou la Négresse, drama in 1 act, with Dupeuty
• 1824: La Petite somnambule, comédie-vaudeville un 1 act, with Dupeuty
• 1824: Pierre et Marie, ou le Soldat ménétrier, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Dupeuty and Langlé
• 1824: Le Tableau de Téniers, ou l'Artiste et l'ouvrier, vaudeville un 1 act, with Dupeuty and Maurice Alhoy
• 1824: Un jour à Dieppe, à-propos-vaudeville, with Saint-Hilaire, Dupeuty and Langlé
• 1825: Alice, ou les Six promesses, vaudeville un 1 act, with Dupeuty and Saint-Hilaire
• 1825: Les Deux tailleurs, ou la Fourniture et la façon, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Dupeuty and Jouslin de La Salle
• 1825: Nicaise, ou le Jour des noces, comédie-vaudeville un 1 act, with Dupeuty
• 1826: L'Anonyme, comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Dupeuty and Jouslin de La Salle
• 1826: La Dette d'honneur, comédie vaudeville in 2 acts, with Dupeuty and Langlé
• 1826: Le Soldat en retraite, ou les Coups du sort, drama in 2 acts, with Jouslin de La Salle and Dupeuty
• 1826: Le Vieux pauvre, ou le Bal et l'incendie, melodrama in 3 acts and extravaganza, with Dupeuty and Ferdinand Laloue
• 1827: Gérard et Marie, comédie vaudeville in 1 act, with Étienne Arago
• 1827: Le Hussard de Felsheim, comédie-vaudeville in 3 acts, with Saint-Hilaire and Dupeuty
• 1827: La Fleuriste, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Étienne Arago
• 1827: Monsieur Botte, comédie-vaudeville in 3 acts, with Dupeuty
• 1828: La Grande duchesse, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Dupeuty and Saintine
• 1828: Les Poletais, comédie-vaudeville in 2 parts, with Saintine and Dupeuty
• 1828: L'Art de se faire aimer de son mari, comédie-vaudeville in 3 acts, with Saintine and Dupeuty
• 1828 Les dix francs de Jeannette, with Armand-François Jouslin de La Salle
• 1828: L'Enfant et le vieux garçon, ou la Réputation d'une femme, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Armand Desvergers and Charles Varin
• 1828: Guillaume Tell, drame-vaudeville in 3 acts, with Dupeuty and Saintine
• 1828: Henri IV en famille, comédie-vaudeville un 1 act, with Auguste Pittaud de Forges and Louis-Émile Vanderburch
• 1828: Le Pauvre Arondel, ou les Trois Talismans, vaudeville-féerie in 2 acts, with Arago
• 1828: Le Sergent Mathieu, comédie-vaudeville in 3 acts, with Saintine and Dupeuty
• 1828: Valentine, ou la Chute des feuilles, drama in 2 acts, mingled with songs, with Saint-Hilaire
• 1828: Yelva ou L'orpheline russe, vaudeville in 2 parts, with Desvergers and Eugène Scribe
• 1829: La jeunesse de Marie Stuart, drama in 2 parts, with Vanderburch
• 1829: La Maison du faubourg, comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Vanderburch
• 1829: Le Mariage par autorité de justice, comedy in 2 acts, with Antoine Simonnin
• 1829: Mathieu Laensberg, comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Bourgeois and Vanderburch
• 1829: La Paysanne de Livonie, comédie historique in 2 acts, mingled with songs, with Saintine and Vanderburch
• 1830: À-propos patriotique, with Michel Masson
• 1830: Le Congréganiste, ou les Trois éducations, comédie-vaudeville in 3 acts, with Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois
• 1830: Le Collège de *** [Reichenau], souvenirs de la Suisse, en 1794, comédie-vaudeville, with Adolphe de Leuven and Masson
• 1830: Le Marchand de la rue Saint-Denis, ou le Magasin, la mairie et la cour d'assises, comédie-vaudeville in 3 acts, with Brazier
• 1830: Le Moulin de Jemmapes, vaudeville historique in 1 act, with de Leuven and Masson
• 1831: L'audience du Prince, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Anicet Bourgeois and Charles de Livry
• 1831: Angélique et Jeanneton, comédie-vaudeville in 4 acts, with Dupeuty and Saintine
• 1831: Les Bouillons à domicile, revue-vaudeville in 1 act, with de Lurieu and de Livry
• 1831: La Caricature, ou les Croquis à la mode, album en sept pochades, with de Lurieu and de Livry
• 1831: L'Entrevue, ou les Deux impératrices, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Masson and Saintine
• 1831: La Jardinière de l'Orangerie, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Masson
• 1831: Les Pilules dramatiques, ou le Choléra-morbus, revue critique et politique in 1 act
• 1831: Robert-le-Diable, à-propos-vaudeville, with Saintine
• 1831: Le Secret d'état, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Eugène Sue and Édouard Magnien
• 1831: La Vieillesse de Stanislas, drame-vaudeville in 1 act, with Saint-Hilaire and Masson
• 1832: La ferme de Bondi, ou Les deux réfractaires, episode de l'Empire in 4 acts, with de Lurieu and Masson
• 1832: Le Bateau de blanchisseuses, tableau-vaudeville in 1 act, with Masson and de Livry
• 1832 La Chanteuse et l'ouvrière, comédie-vaudeville in 4 acts, with Saintine
• 1832: Sara, ou l'Invasion, conte allemand in 2 acts, mingled with vaudeville, with de Leuven and Masson
• 1833: La Révolte des femmes, vaudeville in 2 acts, with de Livry
• 1833: Santeul ou Le chanoine au cabaret, vaudeville in 1 act, with Brazier and Léon Lévy Brunswick
• 1833: Les Deux frères, comedy by Kotzebue, translated by Patrat, remise in 2 acts and in vaudeville, with Masson
• 1833: La fille de Dominique, comédie vaudeville in 1 act, with de Livry
• 1833: Les Locataires et les portiers, vaudeville in 1 act, with Brazier and de Livry
• 1834: Le Triolet bleu, comédie-vaudeville in 5 acts, with de Lurieu and Masson
• 1834: Lionel, ou Mon avenir, comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with de Livry
• 1834: Un bal de domestiques, vaudeville in 1 act, with de Livry
• 1835: Micheline, ou L'heure de l'esprit, opéra comique in 1 act, with Masson and Saint-Hilaire
• 1835: Les infidélités de Lisette, drame vaudeville in 5 acts, with Nicolas Brazier and de Livry
• 1835: On ne passe pas ! ou le Poste d'honneur, vaudeville in 1 act, with Masson
• 1835: Le Ménage du savetier, ou la Richesse du pauvre, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Jouslin de La Salle
• 1835: Micheline, ou L'heure de l'esprit, opéra comique in 1 act, with Masson and Saint-Hilaire
• 1836: La Grue, fabliau mêlé de chant, with Charles Rondeau and de Livry
• 1837: La Résurrection de Saint Antoine, à propos-vaudeville in 1 act, with Emmanuel Théaulon and Brazier
• 1837: Le Mémoire de la blanchisseuse, comedy in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with Brazier and de Livry
• 1838: Mademoiselle Dangeville, comédie in 1 act, mingled with song, with de Livry
• 1838: L'enfant de la balle, vaudeville in 2 acts, with Didier
• 1839: Rendez donc service, comédie proverbe in 1 act, with Masson
• 1840: Cocorico ou La poule à ma tante, vaudeville in 5 acts, with Masson and Saint-Yves^[1]
• 1840: Les pages de Louis XII, comedy in 2 acts, with Alexandre Barrière
• 1840: Le Mari de la fauvette, opéra comique in 1 act, with Angel and Veyrat
• 1840: Les marins d'eau douce, vaudeville in 1 act, with Angel and Veyrat
• 1840: Tout pour les filles rien pour les garçons, vaudeville in 2 acts, with de Lurieu
• 1841: Voltaire en vacances, comédie vaudeville in 2 acts, with de Livry
• 1842: Au croissant d'argent, comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Hippolyte Le Roux
• 1842: Un bas bleu, vaudeville in 1 act, with Ferdinand Langlé
• 1842: Les batignollaises, vaudeville grivois in 1 act, with de Lurieu
• 1842: Jaket's club, vaudeville in 2 acts, with Ernest Jaime
• 1844: Pulcinella, comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Adolphe d'Ennery
• 1845: L'almanach des 25,000 adresses, comédie-vaudeville in 3 acts, with Édouard Lafargue
• 1845: La Morale en action, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Jaime
• 1846: Jean-Baptiste, ou Un cœur d'or, drama in 5 acts, mingled with songs, with Masson and Frédéric Thomas
• 1846: L'inconnue de Ville-d'Avray, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Angel
• 1847: L'Homme aux 160 millions, comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Angel and Xavier Veyrat
• 1849: Lorettes et aristos ou Une soirée au Ranelagh, tableau-vaudeville in 1 act, with Paul Siraudin
• 1850: Un fantôme, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Lafargue
• 1850: Jean Bart, pièce historique in 5 acts, with Forges
• 1854: La Femme à trois maris, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act
• 1854: Une sangsue, comédie vaudeville in 1 act, with Langlé
• 1855: Bonaparte à l'École de Brienne, play in 3 acts and 4 tableaux, with Gabriel de Lurieu and Michel Masson
• 1855: Deux vieilles gardes, opéra bouffe in 1 act, with Léo Delibes

References

1. Read online at Gallica.

Bibliography

• Joseph Marie Quérard, La France Litteraire, T.X, 1839, p. 196-199 (Read on line)
• Joseph Fr. Michaud, Louis Gabriel Michaud, Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, vol.43, 1843, p. 480
• Louis Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, 1870, p. 1819