Armand d'Artois (3 October 1788 – 28 March 1867) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist, and also Achille d'Artois's brother.

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Biography

Trained for the bar, he first worked as an attorney but the success of his play Les Finacés, in 1808, caused him to devote himself entirely to literature. In 1814, he joined the guards of the king of Belgium, leaving military service after receiving the Legion of Honour in 1818.

A very prolific author, he wrote under various collective pseudonyms such as Emmanuel, with Emmanuel Arago, M. Sapajou, with Francis baron d'Allarde and Gabriel de Lurieu. Managing director of the Théâtre des Variétés from 1830 to 1836, he also directed Le Nain couleur de rose, a political, literary and moral newspaper from 15 September 1815 to 5 May 1816 and collaborated with La Foudre by Alphonse de Beauchamp.

His plays were presented on some of the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre des Variétés, Théâtre des Nouveautés, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, etc.

Works

He also authored several songs.

Bibliography

• Louis Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, 1870, (pp. 481) (Read on line)
• Ferdinand Natanael Staaff, La littérature française depuis la formation de la langue jusqu'à nos jours, 1878, (pp. 1065)
• Larousse mensuel illustré, vol.2, 1913, (pp. 683)
• Henry Gidel, Le Vaudeville, 1986, (pp. 67)
• Olivier Bara, Le théâtre de l'opéra-comique sous la restauration, 2001, (pp. 116)