Ernest Louis Antoine Grenet called Ernest Grenet-Dancourt ( 21 February 1854[1] – 10 February 1913)[2] was a French playwright, poet and songwriter.
Life
Born in the
10th arrondissement of Paris, after studying at the
Lycée Saint-Louis, Grenet became a maître d'études, then a bank clerk, before embarking on a career as an actor at the
Théâtre de l'Odéon, which he abandoned for good in 1881[3] to devote himself exclusively to writing.
Vice-president of the
Les Hydropathes [
fr] of 1879 and 1884,[4] he was also responsible for some songs: Fleur d'amour, music by
Justin Clérice [
fr] (1910), La Kraquette, song written with
Georges Nanteuil [
fr] (music by Justin Clérice), Tristesse de la mer, music by Alfredo Barbirolli (1912)...
1911 : Par-ci, par-là, revue passe-partout, with Octave Pradels
1913 : Le Trésor dans la nuit, one-act comedy, with
José Germain, created at the Theatre of
Sens, 9 November 1913. This is the last play written by Ernest Grenet-Dancourt.
Non représenté : Fin de flirt, one-act comedy, published in March 1913 at Albert Méricant éditeur à Paris.
1919: Il viaggio di Berluron, Italian film by
Camillo De Riso after Le Voyage de Berluron, vaudeville in four acts by Ernest Grenet-Dancourt, Maurice Ordonneau and Henri Kéroul (1893).
^Acte de décès n° 133 (view 19/31). Online archives of the City of Paris, civil status of the 9th arrondissement, death register of 1913. The record states that he was single.
Ernest Louis Antoine Grenet called Ernest Grenet-Dancourt ( 21 February 1854[1] – 10 February 1913)[2] was a French playwright, poet and songwriter.
Life
Born in the
10th arrondissement of Paris, after studying at the
Lycée Saint-Louis, Grenet became a maître d'études, then a bank clerk, before embarking on a career as an actor at the
Théâtre de l'Odéon, which he abandoned for good in 1881[3] to devote himself exclusively to writing.
Vice-president of the
Les Hydropathes [
fr] of 1879 and 1884,[4] he was also responsible for some songs: Fleur d'amour, music by
Justin Clérice [
fr] (1910), La Kraquette, song written with
Georges Nanteuil [
fr] (music by Justin Clérice), Tristesse de la mer, music by Alfredo Barbirolli (1912)...
1911 : Par-ci, par-là, revue passe-partout, with Octave Pradels
1913 : Le Trésor dans la nuit, one-act comedy, with
José Germain, created at the Theatre of
Sens, 9 November 1913. This is the last play written by Ernest Grenet-Dancourt.
Non représenté : Fin de flirt, one-act comedy, published in March 1913 at Albert Méricant éditeur à Paris.
1919: Il viaggio di Berluron, Italian film by
Camillo De Riso after Le Voyage de Berluron, vaudeville in four acts by Ernest Grenet-Dancourt, Maurice Ordonneau and Henri Kéroul (1893).
^Acte de décès n° 133 (view 19/31). Online archives of the City of Paris, civil status of the 9th arrondissement, death register of 1913. The record states that he was single.