François-Pierre-Auguste Léger (
Bernay, Eure, 16 March 1766 – Paris, 28 March 1823) was an 18th–19th-century French playwright.
Short biography
The son of a surgeon, he became a tutor for sons of the bourgeoisie then left teaching to join a troupe of actors at the theaters
du Vaudeville (1790–1797) and des Troubadours (1797–1800). He played the roles of lovers and fools and also started writing, playing in the first plays he wrote such as L'Auteur d'un moment that made him known to the public. After seven years at the Vaudeville, it passed to the Troubadours of which he became deputy director until bankruptcy forced the theatre to closed down on 1 March 1800.
1802: Les Aveugles mendiants ou Partie et revanche, one-act vaudeville anecdotique
1802: Un Tour de jeune homme, anecdote in 1 act and in prose, with de Chazet
1803: Rhétorique épistolaire, ou Principaux élémens de l'art oratoire appliqués au genre épistolaire, suivis d'un traité succint sur la manière de lire et de réciter à haute voix
1804: Henri de Bavière, opéra en 3 actes, with Antoine-Pierre Dutramblay
1804: Bombarde, ou les Marchands de chansons, parody of Ossian, ou les Bardes, five-act lyrical
melodrama, with
Joseph Servières
1804: Un Quart-d'heure d'un sage, one-act comedy, mingled with vaudevilles, with Servières
1805: Le Billet de logement, one-act comedy, mingled with vaudevilles
1806: La Belle hôtesse, one-act comedy, mingled with vaudevilles, with de Chazet
1811: Le Billet de loterie, one-act comedy, with de Chazet
1816: Henri IV à Billière, two-act comedy in verse
1817: Maria, ou la Demoiselle de compagnie, comedy in 1 act and in verse
1818: John Bull, ou Voyage à l'île des chimères
1819: Macédoine, ou Poésies et chansons érotiques, badines et grivoises, Béchet aîné
1819: M. Partout, ou le Dîner manqué, one-act tableau-vaudeville
1821: Un Dimanche à Passy, ou M. Partout, one-act tableau-vaudeville, with de Chazet and
Marc-Antoine Désaugiers
François-Pierre-Auguste Léger (
Bernay, Eure, 16 March 1766 – Paris, 28 March 1823) was an 18th–19th-century French playwright.
Short biography
The son of a surgeon, he became a tutor for sons of the bourgeoisie then left teaching to join a troupe of actors at the theaters
du Vaudeville (1790–1797) and des Troubadours (1797–1800). He played the roles of lovers and fools and also started writing, playing in the first plays he wrote such as L'Auteur d'un moment that made him known to the public. After seven years at the Vaudeville, it passed to the Troubadours of which he became deputy director until bankruptcy forced the theatre to closed down on 1 March 1800.
1802: Les Aveugles mendiants ou Partie et revanche, one-act vaudeville anecdotique
1802: Un Tour de jeune homme, anecdote in 1 act and in prose, with de Chazet
1803: Rhétorique épistolaire, ou Principaux élémens de l'art oratoire appliqués au genre épistolaire, suivis d'un traité succint sur la manière de lire et de réciter à haute voix
1804: Henri de Bavière, opéra en 3 actes, with Antoine-Pierre Dutramblay
1804: Bombarde, ou les Marchands de chansons, parody of Ossian, ou les Bardes, five-act lyrical
melodrama, with
Joseph Servières
1804: Un Quart-d'heure d'un sage, one-act comedy, mingled with vaudevilles, with Servières
1805: Le Billet de logement, one-act comedy, mingled with vaudevilles
1806: La Belle hôtesse, one-act comedy, mingled with vaudevilles, with de Chazet
1811: Le Billet de loterie, one-act comedy, with de Chazet
1816: Henri IV à Billière, two-act comedy in verse
1817: Maria, ou la Demoiselle de compagnie, comedy in 1 act and in verse
1818: John Bull, ou Voyage à l'île des chimères
1819: Macédoine, ou Poésies et chansons érotiques, badines et grivoises, Béchet aîné
1819: M. Partout, ou le Dîner manqué, one-act tableau-vaudeville
1821: Un Dimanche à Passy, ou M. Partout, one-act tableau-vaudeville, with de Chazet and
Marc-Antoine Désaugiers