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Dumanoir
French playwright and librettist
Philippe François Pinel (French pronunciation:[filipfʁɑ̃swapinɛl]), known as Dumanoir ([dymanwaʁ]; 31 July 1806 – 16 November 1865), was a French playwright and librettist.
Biography
Dumanoir was born in Capesterre-Belle-Eau, Guadeloupe. He was the son of Mrs. Pinel-Dumanoir, whose family planted the palm trees lining the Allée Dumanoir in Guadeloupe.[1] He left Guadeloupe in 1816.
Guillaume Dumanoir.
Dumanoir wrote in the theatrical genre of Comédie en vaudevilles. He was director of the Théâtre des Variétés from 1837 to 1839. In 1844, he wrote in collaboration with Adolphe d'Ennery, an eponymous drama about Don César de Bazan, one of the characters in Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo.
He died in Pau.
List of major works
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Plays
- 1842: Le Chevalier d'Éon, comedy in 3 acts, (with Jean-François Bayard), Théâtre des Variétés
- 1839: Les Premières Armes de Richelieu[3] (with Jean-François Baya