Bursay

Bursay (of its true name Louis Bruyas ) is a actor and Dramaturge French born with Lyon the April 24th 1738 and died with Friedland (today Pravdinsk, close to Kaliningrad in Russia) the June 14th 1807. He was member of prestigious Académie of the Arcades of Rome.

He begins with the Comédie-Française the February 16th 1761, by the role of Zamore in Alzire of Voltaire. The Mercure de France of written March: “ This new beginner is of a pleasant figure, & an advantageous size. The body of its voice is naturally beautiful. It shows much fire ”. Receipt with the test, it however leaves the Th3e4atre Fran1cais little time to enter afterwards the troop of Miss Montansier, holder of the privilege of the theaters of Brittany and Normandy. Bursay spends there eight years like manager: it makes play the troop in particular with Amiens, Rouen and Nantes.

In 1768, it goes to Vienna and become acquainted there with Noverre, of which he becomes the friend.

From return to Paris the following year, it begins one second time at the Comédie-Française the January 15th 1769, in Métromanie of Alexis Piron and in the Husband by trickery of Louis de Boissy. After a new stay in Vienna in 1772, he plays La Rochelle, then is engaged with the Théâtre of the Currency to Brussels for the season 1773 - 1774.

He goes then to Marseilles, where it plays of 1775 with 1780 (except for the season 1778 - 1779 which he passes to Brussels), and there made print several parts translated of Kotzebue. October 1st 1776, it marries with Marseilles a girl of actors, Marie-Anne Moylin.

Engaged with Brussels in 1781, it remains there until in 1793 and gives to it as well its translations of Kotzebue as its clean parts, in which it plays the main roles.

His/her daughter-in-law, Domergue Dawn, singer of the Opera of Paris under the name of “Miss Aurore”, will make play her parts and her translations with Hamburg, Saint-Pétersbourg and Moscow under the name of “Mrs. Bursay”.

Works and translations

  • Artaxerce , according to Metastasis (Marseilles, 1765, printed in Paris in 1765 and Marseilles in 1776)
  • Orphée (Marseilles, 1775)
  • the Festival of the Tigers (Marseilles, 1779; Paris, 1782)
  • the Friend of Court (Marseilles, 1775,1779 and 1780)
  • Momus fabulist or the Marriage of Venus and Vulcan , comedy “given to the theater with some changemens” (Marseilles, 1776)
  • Indians in England (Brussels, May 14th 1792)
  • Laws and kings, or the Happiness of the people (Brussels, April 15th 1793)
  • the Parrot or the Reward of the subsidiary love (Brussels, October 9th 1793, nonprinted)
  • ItTeach, or the Young Soldier (Brussels, August 29th 1792, printed in 1799)
  • Misanthropie and repentance (Brussels, May 3rd 1793, printed in Paris in 1799)

External bond

  • Its parts and their representations with the {{S|XVIII|E}} on site CÉSAR

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