Louis-Charles Caigniez

Louis-Charles Caigniez , born the April 13rd 1762 with Arras and dead the February 19th 1842, is a dramatic author French.

Endowed with a true talent for the scene, Caigniez competed on the theaters of the boulevard with Guilbert de Pixérécourt and was called “the Racine melodrama”, whose Pixérécourt was called the Corneille.

Caigniez had enough taste literary to succeed in more delicate works. Its Unsteady , comedy in three acts, which was represented in 1807 with the Théâtre Louvois and its Méprise in diligence , another comedy in three acts, which was played theater Favart in 1819, is characterized by original and comic situations.

Principal successes of this author in the melodrama are: the Judgment of Solomon (1802) and the Magpie robber, or the Maidservant of Palaiseau (1815). These two parts were represented a long time with the same vogue, as well with Paris as in the abroad and provincial towns. One still quotes among the works of Caigniez: the Lovers posts of it (1804); Androclès, or the grateful Lion (1804); the Forest of Hermanstadt (1805); Children of the logger (1809); the rival Adopted girl, or two mothers (1810); Jew-Wandering it (1812); the alive Dead (1813); Jean of Calais (1815); accusing Corbels (1817); Ugolin, or the Tower of the Hunger (1821); Sleeping Beauty (1822), etc

Works

Androclès, or the grateful Lion (1804)
Jean of Calais (1815)
Sleeping Beauty (1822)
the Adopted girl, or the two rival mothers (1810)
the Forest of Hermanstadt (1805)
the alive Dead (1813)
Jew-Wandering It (1812)
the Lovers posts of it (1804)
the accusing Corbels (1817)
Children of the logger (1809)
Ugolin, or the Tower of the Hunger (1821)

Sources

Gustave Vapereau, universal Dictionary of the literatures , Paris, Hatchet, 1876, p. 844

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