Charles-Guillaume Etienne
See also: Etienne
Charles-Guillaume Etienne , born with Chamouilley the January 6th 1777 and died in Paris the March 13rd 1845, is a dramatic author French. Twice elected with the French Academy, it was also Journaliste, critic, appointed and even of France.
Biography
It occupies various administrative offices during the Révolution and settles in 1796 with Paris where it is occupied with the drafting of various newspapers. It gives up soon the press for the theater where the growth its true vocation. It gives its first opera, the Dream , in 1799, and begins with the Comédie-Française with a prickly comedy, Brueys and Palaprat , which is success. In 1802, it publishes a Histoire of the Th3e4atre Fran1cais , then he becomes secretary of the duke of Bassano and accompanies Napoleon in the campaigns by Italy, of Germany, of Austria and Poland, while continuing to write for the scene. He is named (1810) general critic of the police force and of the newspapers and he is editor association of the Journal of the Empire to replace Joseph Fievée.The success of its comedy the Two Sons-in-law , played Th3e4atre Fran1cais in 1810, is worth to him to be elected the following year with the French Academy. This part however is highly discussed and its marked author of plagiarism. In its speech of reception, marked the November 7th 1811, it attempts to show the narrow union of the comedy and the history. It then gives to the Th3e4atre Fran1cais a comedy in 5 acts, Intrigante , which gains success but must be stopped at the end of eleven representations, the Emperor having been shocked by certain towards. The part having been prohibited causes an immense curiosity, and the printed specimens are torn off at ransom price. In 1814, the First Restoration brings back prohibition, but the author refuses to benefit from this measurement of benevolence.
Proscribed in 1816, by the count de Vaublanc, then Minister of Interior Department, it is excluded from the Academy, to which it will be re-elected in 1829. He is seven times appointed of the Meuse (into 1820,1822,1827,1830,1831,1834,1837), then, being withdrawn of the policy (in 1839), he continues to produce dramatic and lyric works, often written in collaboration, with in particular Charles Gaugiran de Nanteuil.
Charles-Guillaume Etienne was also twice president of the Société of the authors and dramatic type-setters, of 1829 to 1831 and 1843 to 1845. Alfred de Vigny reports in its speech of reception to the Academy that the actress Adrienne Lecouvreur bequeathed her library to him. One commonly allots to Etienne the proverbial expression: “If you want something done right, do it yourself. ”
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