{{Short description|French writer and playwright}} {{Infobox person | name = Adrien Decourcelle | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 28 October 1821 | birth_place = Montdidier (Somme) | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1892|08|06|1821|10|28}} | death_place = Étretat (Seine-Maritime) | othername = | occupation = Playwright, chansonnier | years_active = | spouse = Caroline Lambert | signature = }}
'''Adrien Decourcelle''' (28 October 1821 – 6 August 1892)<ref>[http://recherche.archivesdepartementales76.net/?id=viewer&doc=accounts%2Fmnesys_ad76%2Fdatas%2Fir%2Fserie_E_seigneuries_familles_notaires_etat_civil%2FFRAD076_IR_E_etat_civil.xml&page_ref=1268335&lot_num=1&img_num=1&index_in_visu= Acte n° 66 (vue 40)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806114932/http://recherche.archivesdepartementales76.net/?id=viewer&doc=accounts%2Fmnesys_ad76%2Fdatas%2Fir%2Fserie_E_seigneuries_familles_notaires_etat_civil%2FFRAD076_IR_E_etat_civil.xml&page_ref=1268335&lot_num=1&img_num=1&index_in_visu= |date=2016-08-06 }}, registre des décès de 1892 pour la Ville d'Étretat, Archives numérisées de Seine-Maritime.</ref> was a 19th-century French writer and playwright.
Pierre-Henri-Adrien Decourcelle wrote about 70 plays between 1845 and 1855, comedies and Comédie en vaudeville written most of the time in collaboration with Théodore Barrière. He was also a successful chansonnier.{{cn|date=May 2016}}
In 1851 he married Caroline Lambert, a niece of Adolphe d'Ennery.{{cn|date=May 2016}} His son was Pierre Decourcelle (1856-1926), a playwright, novelist, president of the Société des gens de lettres and commandeur of the Légion d'honneur. Pierre Decourcelle was involved in legal disputes following Ennery's death in 1899.<ref>« [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6552548z Le Testament d'Adolphe d'Ennery] », ''Revue des grands procès'', 1900, at Gallica.</ref>
Adrien Decourcelle is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery in the 20th arrondissement of Paris (7th division).{{cn|date=May 2016}}
== Selected works == *1848: ''Un vilain monsieur'', play with Théodore Barrière, Théâtre des Variétés *1850: ''Les Petits Moyens'', play with Eugène Labiche and Gustave Lemoine, Théâtre du Gymnase *1895: ''La Belle Épicière'', operetta with Henri Kéroul, music by Louis Varney, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens
== Distinctions == * Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur<ref>[http://www.culture.gouv.fr/LH/LH062/PG/FRDAFAN83_OL0684052V001.htm Base Léonore]. </ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== Bibliography == * Domenico Gabrielli, ''Dictionnaire historique du cimetière du Père-Lachaise (XVIIIe – XIXe siècles)'', Paris, éd. de l'Amateur, 2002, {{p.|110}}. * ''Revue d'art dramatique'', tome 27, 1892, (p. 248).
== External links == * [http://www.artlyriquefr.fr/personnages/Decourcelle%20Adrien.html Adrien Decourcelle]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} sur ''artlyriquefr.fr'' * [http://data.bnf.fr/12156923/adrien_decourcelle/ Adrien Decourcelle] on {{Interlanguage link multi|Data.bnf.fr|fr}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Decourcelle, Adrien}} Category:19th-century French dramatists and playwrights Category:French chansonniers Category:People from Montdidier, Somme Category:1821 births Category:1892 deaths Category:Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery