Léonor Jean Christine Soulas d'Allainval

Léonor-Jean-Christin Soulas d'Allainval, called abbé d'Allainval, (c. 1700, Chartres – 2 May 1753, Hôtel-Dieu de Paris) was an 18th-century French playwright.

Life

He lived all his life in misery and died an indigent.[1] None of his plays were successful, except for a very short time his first comedy, L'Embarras des richesses, played four times in Paris during his lifetime and later considered a comedy "well conducted and well untied" and "one of his best works".[2] Only L'École des bourgeois brought him posthumous fame. Presented for the first time at the Comédie-Française in 1728, the play was revived only sixteen years after his death and played intermittently between 1769 and 1848. In 1854, it inspired Émile Augier and Jules Sandeau a new comedy which was like a sequel.[3]

Works

Theatre
Varia

See also

References

  1. ↑ Jean Baudrais, Petite Bibliotheque des théâtres, Paris, vol. 7, 1785, (p. 107).
  2. ↑ Chefs-d'œuvre des auteurs comiques, vol. III, 1872, mentioned by Albert Cim, Récréations littéraires, Hachette, Paris, 1920, (p. 62).
  3. ↑ Émile Augier et Jules Sandeau, Le Gendre de M. Poirier, four-act comedy, in prose, premiered at Paris at Théâtre du Gymnase 8 April 1854.
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