François-Marie Mayeur , known as Mayeur of Saint-Paul , is a Acteur, Dramaturge and director of Théâtre French born with Paris the June 6th 1758 (parish Saint-Paul, from where its Pseudonyme) and died in the same city the December 18th 1818.

Actor as of his childhood in the troop of Audinot to the Theater of Ambiguous-Comic the, it is quickly appreciated of the public but, extremely undisciplined, it is locked up several times at the For the Bishop. In 1779, it enters to the Large-Dancers of the King, in the troop of Nicolet, where its vogue follows it.

To the end of the year 1789, it leaves to play in the French West Indies, in particular with Saint-Domingue (today Haiti), with some other artists of the troop led by the dancer Placide. But the rising of the Blacks the constrained one to return in France. It unloads with Bordeaux in 1791 and makes build a room that it names Théâtre of the Light comedy-Varieties. Shown of “moderate”, it leaves the city and goes to Nantes then to Paris in 1795, with the Theater of the City.

In 1798, it embarks with new for the colonies and goes in Ile de France (today the Mauritius) where it remains two years, then returns to Paris to take the direction of the Théâtre of Gaîté.

It runs then the province between 1805 and 1815, of Bordeaux to Lyon, Versailles and Dunkirk. Two years later, it makes in Corsica to direct the Theater of Bastia, but it is it there essuie a failure. Of return to Paris, it dies there in misery at the 60 years age.

He is the author of an about sixty plays, often licentious, and scandalous works, always anonymous… Its Chroniqueur désœuvré (1781-1783) is a sum of the rumors which circulated on the theater of Paris at the end of the 18th century.

Its lampoons

• Désœuvré or the Spy of the Boulevard of the Temple , London, 1781 (republished in 1782)
• the désœuvré Chronicler or the Spy of the boulevard of the Temple, containing scandalous and veracious annals directors, actors and travelling acrobats of the boulevard, with a summary from their life and manners per chronological order , London, 1782-1783, 2 T. into 1 vol. (and 2nd ED. in 1 vol., 1782)
• higher Flight, or the Spy of the principal theaters of the capital, containing a history shortened of the actors and actresses of these same theaters, enriched by philosophical observations and entertaining anecdotes , Memphis, “at Sincere, bookseller, refugee with the Well of the truth”, 1784.

External bond

Its parts and their representations on site CÉSAR

Random links:

Direct3D | Hollis mark | Battle Angel | Norman Nailsmith | Thomas Thomson (chemist)