{{Short description|French playwright and librettist}} {{Infobox person | name = Alfred Delacour | image = Alfred Delacour by Nadar.png | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = Pierre-Alfred Lartigue | birth_date = 3 September 1817 | birth_place = Bordeaux | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1883|03|31|1817|09|03}} | death_place = 9th arrondissement of Paris | othername = | occupation = Playwright and librettist. | years_active = | spouse = | signature = }}
'''Alfred Delacour''' or '''Alfred-Charlemagne Delacour''', real name '''Pierre-Alfred Lartigue''', (3 September 1817 <ref>and not in 1815 [http://data.bnf.fr/12081832/alfred_delacour/ Alfred Delacour (1815-1883): individual pseudonyme ]</ref> – 31 March 1883 <ref>Ville de Paris, état-civil du 9th arrondissement, registre des décès de 1883, acte n° 517.</ref>) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist.
== Biography == In addition to his occupation as a physician, which he practised from 1841,<ref>Louis Gustave Vapereau, ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, contenant toutes les personnes notables de la France et des pays étrangers… : Supplement to the IVth edition by Léon Garnier'', Hachette, 1865, (p. 490).</ref> Delacour turned progressively to the theatre.<ref>François Cavaignac, ''La culture théâtrale à Étampes au XIXth'', éditions L'Harmattan, 2007, (p. 60).</ref> He collaborated with Eugène Labiche and Clairville for several vaudevilles <ref>Jeanne Benay, ''L'opérette viennoise'', Austriaca, n° 46, Publication Univ. Rouen Havre, 1998, (p. 159).</ref>
== Titles and decorations == * Knight of the Legion of honour (7 August 1867 decree) His entry on the Base Léonore wrongly calls him ''Alfred-Charlemagne'' which was his pen name.
== Plays == ''Le Courrier de Lyon'' (1850) was one of Delacour's noted plays. It was written together with Eugène Moreau and Paul Siraudin. The play was based on the story of Joseph Lesurques, an innocent man who was executed after he was mistaken for the leader of a gang who brutally murdered a courier.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Pisani|first=Michael V.|title=Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York|publisher=University of Iowa Press|year=2014|isbn=978-1-60938-230-8|location=Iowa City|pages=174}}</ref> Aside from his collaborations with Labiche and Clairville, Delacour also worked with Lambert Thiboust on ''Le diable'' (1880), a French drama.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Keridis|first1=Dimitris|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HkjWDwAAQBAJ&q=Alfred+Delacour+playwright&pg=PT86|title=Thessaloniki: A City in Transition, 1912–2012|last2=Kiesling|first2=John Brady|date=2020-03-12|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-429-51366-4|language=en}}</ref> Some of the playwright's vaudeville plays inspired Clement Scott and Arthur Matthison's ''Great Divorce Case'' (1876) and James Albery's ''The Pink Dominos'' (1877).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bennett|first=Michael Y.|title=Oscar Wilde's Society Plays|publisher=Springer|year=2015|isbn=978-1-137-41093-1|location=Berlin|pages=60–61}}</ref> *1847: ''L'Hospitalité d'une grisette'' by Mathieu Barthélemy Thouin and Delacour *1849: ''E. H.'' by Eugène Moreau, Paul Siraudin and Delacour <ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/E_H_comédie_vaudeville_en_1_acte_par_MM.html?id=dO5iQwAACAAJ Bibliographic information]</ref><ref>This comédie en vaudevilles in one act has been translated into the Russian language by Pavel Feodorov (ru: Павел Степанович Фёдоров) in 1849 under the title ''Az et Fert'' (''Аз и ферт'') which was often performed and then adapted three times for film in the Russian language in 1946, 1981 and 2000.</ref> *1850: ''Le Courrier de Lyon'' by Eugène Moreau, Paul Siraudin and Delacour, Théâtre de la Gaîté *1851: ''La fille qui trompe son mari'' by Eugène Moreau and Delacour *1852: ''Paris qui dort'' by Lambert-Thiboust and Delacour, Théâtre des Variétés *1855: ''Un bal d'auvergnats'' by Paul Siraudin, Delacour and Lambert-Thiboust, Théâtre du Palais-Royal *1856: ''La Queue de la poële'' by Paul Siraudin and Delacour, Théâtre du Palais-Royal *1858: ''Deux merles blancs'' by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre des Variétés *1859: ''Un mari à la porte'' by Delacour and Léon Morand, opérette in one act with music by Offenbach; Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Lacaze *1861: ''Les Voisins de Molinchart'' by Marc-Michel and Delacour *1862: ''Les Petits Oiseaux'' by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre du Vaudeville *1864: ''La Cagnotte'' by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre du Palais-Royal *1864: ''Le Point de mire'' by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre de la Cour *1864: ''Les Femmes sérieuses'' by Paul Siraudin, Alfred and Ernest Blum, Théâtre du Palais-Royal *1865: ''L'Homme qui manque le coche'' by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre des Variétés *1865: ''Le Voyage en Chine'' by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Opéra-Comique *1875: ''Le Procès Veauradieux'' by Alfred Hennequin and Delacour. *1876: ''Le roi dort'' by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre des Variétés *1876: ''Les Dominos roses'' by Alfred Hennequin and Delacour, Théâtre du Vaudeville
== Adaptations for television == * 1964: ''Célimare le bien-aimé'', by Delacour and Eugène Labiche (1863), television film by René Lucot * 2009: ''La Cagnotte'', by Delacour and Eugène Labiche (1864), television film by Philippe Monnier.
== Bibliography == * Hippolyte Minier, ''Le théâtre à Bordeaux, étude historique suivi de la nomenclature des auteurs dramatiques bordelais et de leurs ouvrages, établie en collaboration avec Jules Delpit'', Bordeaux, 1883, (p. 53)
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://data.bnf.fr/12081832/alfred_delacour/ Alfred Delacour] on Data.bnf.fr * {{IMDb name|id=1680349}} {{Authority control}}
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