Joanny Augier

Joanny Augier

Joanny Augier, caricature by Nadar
Born Jean-Baptiste Augier
3 April 1813
Lyon
Died 17 February 1855(1855-02-17) (aged 41)
Lyon
Occupation Plawright

Jean-Baptiste Augier called Joanny Augier, (3 April 1813[1][2] – 17 February 1855.[3]) was a 19th-century French playwright and journalist.

Biography

A secretary of Lamartine after the French Revolution of 1848 (24 February), an éditor at the Le Pays, his plays were presented, among others, at the Théâtre de la Gaîté and the Théâtre du Gymnase.

Suddenly confined to the Centre hospitalier Saint-Jean-de-Dieu in Lyon following a fit of madness, he died shortly after on 17 February 1855.

Works

We owe him forty-eight plays shown on Paris and Lyon stages between 1835 and 1852[4] including:

Bibliography

References

  1. Birth certificate n° 1032 (vue 79/320). Archives online of the city of Lyon, état-civil de la mairie unique, births records for the year 1813.
  2. Current 8th arrondissement.
  3. Death certificate n° 203 (vue 26/194). Archives online of the city of Lyon, état-civil of 3rd arrondissement (former), deaths records for the year 1855.
  4. Complete list in J. Goizet, A. Burtal, Dictionnaire universel du Théâtre en France et du théatre français à l'étranger, 1867, (p. 110–111) (Read online)
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