Étienne Casimir Hippolyte Cordellier-Delanoue
Étienne Casimir Hippolyte Cordellier-Delanoue (19 September 1806 – 14 November 1854), was a French playwright, novelist and poet.
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Biography
He was in Grenoble, the son of General Étienne Jean-François Cordellier-Delanoüe. He began his literary career with poems and articles published in magazines or inserted in collections such as Le Livre des Cent-et-Un and Les Français peints par eux-mêmes. He became friends with Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo and Théophile Gautier. He contributed to La Psyché and directed La Tribune romantique, the short-lived journal that succeeded it in 1830 in the wake of the controversy over Hernani.[1] In 1833, he contributed to La France littéraire a series of articles on famous musicians. After having published two epistles in verse, he tackled the novel and the theater. His three novels, Les Javanais, Jacques Cœur and René d'Anjou, were republished several times. Among his plays, which quickly fell into oblivion, Mathieu Luc achieved a certain literary success.
He is known to have collaborated in Napoleon Bonaparte and Bathilde by Dumas, who said that Cordellier-Delanoue was much better at verse than he was and wondered why his success had not been at least equal to his own. He was, according to Pierre Larousse, "a talented writer, who has too often been forced to work under the name of fashionable playwrights and novelists, and whose name, removed from the poster, has rarely reached the ears of the public."[2] On May 17, 1831, he had Kernox le fou, a drama in four acts and in verse, performed at the Odéon theater. Porel and Monval say of this play: "the author was named, but in front of the reception made to his name, this one chose to withdraw his strange play".[3]
He married Agathe Alexandrine Gavaudan, a singer, who was widowed.
Cordellier-Delanoue died in his armchair while correcting the proofs of his last book, Les Sillons, a collection of old and new poems. One of them, entitled "Le Rire de Mirabeau", had attracted the attention of Goethe in 1830: "The poem," said Goethe, "is full of spirit and boldness; and you must see it. It seems as if Mephistophiles had prepared the ink for the poet."[4]
Works
- Theatre
- 1831: Kernox le fou, drama in four acts and in verse, Théâtre de l'Odéon, 17 May
- 1832; Le Barbier de Louis XI, 1439-1483 Read online
- 1834: Marguerite de Montmorency in Le Livre de beauté : souvenirs historiques, preface by Charles Nodier
- 1835: Cromwell et Charles Ier, drama in 5 acts, preceded by Un dernier jour de popularité, prologue in 1 act, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 21 May
- 1839: Isabelle de Montréal, drama in 2 acts, mingled with singing, with Paul Foucher, Paris, Théâtre de la Gaîté, 10 June
- 1841: Mathieu Luc, drama in 5 acts in verse, Paris, Théâtre de l'Odéon, 28 October
- 1847: Le Manchon, comedy in 2 acts in verse, Paris, Théâtre de l'Odéon, 23 March
- 1847: Qui dort dîne, one-act comédie en vaudevilles, with Eugène Roche, Paris, Théâtre des Variétés, 8 July
- 1855: Une Épreuve avant la lettre, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Jules Barbier, Paris, Théâtre des Variétés, 14 February Read online
- Varia
- 1824: La Poésie et la Musique, ou Racine et Mozart, épître à M. Victor S..., play in verse
- 1826: Épître à sir Walter Scott, play in verse
- 1845: Les Javanais, histoire de 1682, novel. Aldo published under the title La Couronne d'or in 1851 and reprinted several times under the title Histoire de 1682 : l'Île de Java between 1875 and 1882.
- 1847: Jacques Cœur, novel Read online
- 1851: René d'Anjou, novel
- 1855: Les Sillons, poésies anciennes et nouvelles
