Marie Joseph Pain (4 August 1773, Paris – March 1830, ibid.) was a 19th-century French playwright, poet and essayist.

Biography

A member of the Société du Caveau [fr], censor and office manager at the Prefecture of the Seine under the Bourbon Restoration, chief editor of the magazine Le Drapeau blanc [fr], he is known as one of the pioneers of vaudevillism.[1] His plays, some of which achieved a major success,[2] were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre du Vaudeville, the Théâtre du Gymnase-Dramatique, and the Théâtre des Variétés.

Works

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Bibliography

• Joseph-Marie Quérard, La France littéraire ou Dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, 1834, p. 556-557
• Marie-Nicolas Bouillet, Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de géographie, vol.2, 1867, p. 1410
• Charles Dezobry, Théodore Bachelet, Dictionnaire général de biographie et d'histoire, vol.2, 1873, p. 2000
• John Oxenford, The Book of French Songs, 1877, p. 222
• Henry Gidel, Le vaudeville, 1986, p. 54

References

External links

• Joseph Pain on Data.bnf.fr

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[fr] Joseph Pain