# Alfred Delacour

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{{Short description|French playwright and librettist}}
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| name               = Alfred Delacour
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| birth_name         = Pierre-Alfred Lartigue
| birth_date         = 3 September 1817
| birth_place        = [Bordeaux](/source/Bordeaux)
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1883|03|31|1817|09|03}}
| death_place        = [9th arrondissement of Paris](/source/9th_arrondissement_of_Paris)
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| occupation         = Playwright and librettist.
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'''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](/source/Libretto).

== Biography ==
In addition to his occupation as a physician, which he practised from 1841,<ref>[Louis Gustave Vapereau](/source/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.&nbsp;490).</ref> Delacour turned progressively to the theatre.<ref>François Cavaignac, ''La culture théâtrale à Étampes au XIXth'', éditions L'Harmattan, 2007, (p.&nbsp;60).</ref> He collaborated with [Eugène Labiche](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Labiche) and [Clairville](/source/Clairville_(Louis-Fran%C3%A7ois_Nicola%C3%AFe)) for several [vaudeville](/source/vaudeville)s <ref>Jeanne Benay, ''L'opérette viennoise'', Austriaca, n° 46, Publication Univ. Rouen Havre, 1998, (p.&nbsp;159).</ref>

== Titles and decorations ==
* [Knight of the Legion of honour](/source/Ordre_national_de_la_L%C3%A9gion_d'honneur) (7 August 1867 decree) His entry on the [Base Léonore](/source/Base_L%C3%A9onore) wrongly calls him ''Alfred-Charlemagne'' which was his [pen name](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Clement_Scott) and Arthur Matthison's ''Great Divorce Case'' (1876) and [James Albery](/source/James_Albery)'s ''[The Pink Dominos](/source/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](/source/Mathieu_Barth%C3%A9lemy_Thouin) and Delacour
*1849: ''E. H.'' by Eugène Moreau, [Paul Siraudin](/source/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](/source/com%C3%A9die_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](/source/1946_in_film), [1981](/source/1981_in_film) and [2000](/source/2000_in_film).</ref>
*1850: ''Le Courrier de Lyon'' by Eugène Moreau, Paul Siraudin and Delacour, [Théâtre de la Gaîté](/source/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_de_la_Ga%C3%AEt%C3%A9_(boulevard_du_Temple))
*1851: ''La fille qui trompe son mari'' by Eugène Moreau and Delacour
*1852: ''Paris qui dort'' by [Lambert-Thiboust](/source/Lambert-Thiboust) and Delacour, [Théâtre des Variétés](/source/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_des_Vari%C3%A9t%C3%A9s)
*1855: ''Un bal d'auvergnats'' by Paul Siraudin, Delacour and Lambert-Thiboust, [Théâtre du Palais-Royal](/source/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_du_Palais-Royal)
*1856: ''La Queue de la poële'' by Paul Siraudin and Delacour, Théâtre du Palais-Royal
*1858: ''[Deux merles blancs](/source/Deux_merles_blancs)'' by [Eugène Labiche](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Labiche) and Delacour, Théâtre des Variétés
*1859: ''[Un mari à la porte](/source/Un_mari_%C3%A0_la_porte)'' by Delacour and Léon Morand, opérette in one act with music by [Offenbach](/source/Jacques_Offenbach); [Bouffes-Parisiens](/source/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_des_Bouffes-Parisiens), Salle&nbsp;Lacaze
*1861: ''Les Voisins de Molinchart'' by [Marc-Michel](/source/Marc-Michel) and Delacour
*1862: ''[Les Petits Oiseaux](/source/Les_Petits_Oiseaux)'' by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, [Théâtre du Vaudeville](/source/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_du_Vaudeville)
*1864: ''[La Cagnotte](/source/La_Cagnotte)'' by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, [Théâtre du Palais-Royal](/source/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_du_Palais-Royal)
*1864: ''[Le Point de mire](/source/Le_Point_de_mire)'' by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre de la Cour
*1864: ''Les Femmes sérieuses'' by Paul Siraudin, Alfred and [Ernest Blum](/source/Ernest_Blum), Théâtre du Palais-Royal
*1865: ''[L'Homme qui manque le coche](/source/L'Homme_qui_manque_le_coche)'' by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre des Variétés
*1865: ''[Le Voyage en Chine](/source/Le_Voyage_en_Chine)'' by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Opéra-Comique
*1875: ''[Le Procès Veauradieux](/source/Le_Proc%C3%A8s_Veauradieux)'' by [Alfred Hennequin](/source/Alfred_Hennequin) and Delacour.
*1876: ''[Le roi dort](/source/Le_roi_dort)'' by Eugène Labiche and Delacour, Théâtre des Variétés
*1876: ''[Les Dominos roses](/source/Les_Dominos_roses)'' by Alfred Hennequin and Delacour, Théâtre du Vaudeville

== Adaptations for television ==
* [1964](/source/1964_in_television): ''[Célimare le bien-aimé](/source/C%C3%A9limare_le_bien-aim%C3%A9)'', by Delacour and Eugène Labiche (1863), [television film](/source/television_film) by [René Lucot](/source/Ren%C3%A9_Lucot)
* [2009](/source/2009_in_television): ''La Cagnotte'', by Delacour and Eugène Labiche (1864), television film by [Philippe Monnier](/source/Philippe_Monnier_(director)).

== 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](/source/Jules_Delpit)'', Bordeaux, 1883, (p.&nbsp;53)

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://data.bnf.fr/12081832/alfred_delacour/ Alfred Delacour] on [Data.bnf.fr](/source/Data.bnf.fr)
* {{IMDb name|id=1680349}}
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