French playwright and writer (1829–1890)
Louis Marc Adolphe Belot |
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| Born | (1829-11-06)November 6, 1829
Pointe-à-Pitre |
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| Died | December 18, 1890(1890-12-18) (aged 61) |
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Louis Marc Adolphe Belot was a Frenchplaywright andnovelist. He was born on 6 November 1829 in Pointe-à-Pitre, and died on 18 December 1890 in Paris, France.
Adolphe Belot was the son of an attorney employed by thePointe-à-Pitre court, who had been born inLe Havre, France. Adolphe Belot was educated at the prestigious Collège Sainte-Barbe in metropolitan France and went on to obtain his degree at the Faculty of Law in Paris. In 1854, he was registered at the law society (tableau des avocats)in Nancy.[1]
After several trips to the Americas, he devoted himself to writing, publishingLe Châtiment in 1855 before approaching the theater with the comedyÀ la Campagne in 1857. In 1859, in collaboration with Charles Edmond Villetard de Prunières,[2][circular reference] he wroteLe Testament de César Girodot, a show which was performed over 500 times at the Odéon theater.
Belot wrote the novelMademoiselle Giraud, My Wife in 1870, centered around a naive young man and his eponymous wife who refuses to consummate their marriage. The book was an immense success, selling at least 66,000 copies and has been published in 33 editions around the world.
Belot died ofpulmonary congestion at the age of 61, on 18 December 1890.
Belot fathered two daughters: Marthe and Jeanne, the latter of which became an actress at the Odéon theatre under the pseudonym of "Miss Belly". She died oftyphoid fever in January 1899.
- 1859Un Secret de Famille, 5 acts, Théâtre de l'Ambigu
- 1860La Vengeance du Mari, 3 acts, Théâtre de l'Odéon
- 1861Les Parents Terribles, 3 acts, a collaboration withLéon Journault [fr], Théâtre de l'Odéon
- 1862Les Maris à Système, 3 acts, Théâtre du Gymnase
- 1862Le Vrai Courage, 2 acts, Théâtre du Vaudeville
- 1863Les Indifférents, 4 acts, Théâtre de l'Odéon
- 1865Le Passé de M. Jouanne, 4 acts, a collaboration withHenri Crisafulli, Théâtre du Gymnase
- 1865L’Habitude et le Souvenir, 4 acts, Théâtre du Vaudeville
- 1867La Vénus de Gordes, withErnest Daudet
- 1867Les Souvenirs, 4 acts, Théâtre du Vaudeville
- 1868Le Drame de la Rue de la Paix, 5 acts, Théâtre de l'Odéon
- 1868Miss Multon, 3 acts, withEugène Nus [fr], Théâtre du Vaudeville, 150 shows
- 1869La Leçon du Jour, 4 acts, with Eugène Nus, Théâtre du Vaudeville
- 1871L’Article 47, 5 acts, Théâtre de l’Ambigu, 100 shows
- 1873La Marquise, 4 acts, with Eugène Nus, Théatre du Gymnase[3]
- 1876Fromont Jeune et Risler Aîné, 5 acts, (adaptation of a novel byAlphonse Daudet), Théâtre du Vaudeville
- 1880Les Étrangleurs de Paris, a drama in 5 acts and 12 scenes, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin
- 1885Sapho,[4] 5 acts, (adaptation ofa novel byAlphonse Daudet), Théâtre du Gymnase; (an English translation by Elizabeth Beall Ginty[5])
Short stories and novels
[edit]- "Un Cas de Conscience"
- Le Secret Terrible, a collaboration withJules Dautin [fr], Dentu, Paris
- Le Parricide, a collaboration with Jules Dautin, Dentu, Paris
- Dacolard et Lubin (sequel toLe Parricide), a collaboration with Jules Dautin, Dentu, Paris
- La Sultane Parisienne, Dentu, Paris
- Nouvelles, 1857
- Trois nouvelles, 1863
- La Vénus de Gordes, a collaboration withErnest Daudet, 1866[6]
- Le Drame de la Rue de la Paix, Michel Lévy frères, Paris, 1867
- L'Article 47 (La fille de couleur; Le journal d'une jeune fille; La haute police), Dentu, Paris, 1870
- Mademoiselle Giraud, ma femme, 1870
- La Femme de feu, 1872
- Hélène et Mathilde, 1874
- Les Mystères Mondains, 1875[7]
- Footnotes
- Bibliography
- Ernest Glaeser, Biographie nationale des contemporains : rédigée par une Société de gens de lettres sous la direction de M. Ernest Glaeser, Paris, Glaeser et cie, 1878, p. 838.
- Henri Adolphe Lara, Contribution de la Guadeloupe à la pensée française : 1635–1935, Paris, Jean Crès, 1936, p. 301.
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