Amédée de Jallais (17 December 1826 – 31 January 1909) was a 19th-century French playwright, operetta librettist and chansonnier.

Amédée de Jallais
Amédée de Jallais
Born	Amédée-Jean-Baptiste de Font-Reaulx de Jallais 17 December 1826 Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Died	31 January 1909(1909-01-31) (aged 82) Paris
Spouse(s)	Eudoxie Laurent

Biography

The son of a lieutenant colonel in the guards, he studied at the College Bourbon then entered in the insurance company La Nationale (1845–1850) as employee, a position he will leave to devote himself entirely to literature after the success of his comedy Un de perdu, une de retrouvée.

Collaborator of the Gazette des théâtres, then of the Messager des théâtres, he became managing director of the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques (1871) then after the blaze of this theatre on 22 May 1871, of the Théâtre des Menus-Plaisirs. Administrator dof the Théâtre Déjazet (1874–1875), general secretary of the Théâtre de la République (1897), he married the actress Eudoxie Laurent in 1862.

He wrote more than two hundred plays which were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques etc.

Works

Bibliography

• Edmond Antoine Poinsot, Dictionnaire des pseudonymes, 1869, p. 242
• Pierre Larousse, Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, 1er supplément, 1878
• Henry Lyonnet, Dictionnaire des comédiens français, 1911, p. 407

References

External links

• Amédée de Janllais on Data.bnf.fr
• Photography and biography on artlyrique.fr