{{Short description|French poet, chansonnier, playwright and goguettier}} {{Infobox person | name = | image = Pierre-Joseph Charrin.jpg | caption = Pierre-Joseph Charrin en 1829 | birth_name = | birth_date = 2 February 1784 | birth_place = Lyon | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1863|04|24|1784|02|02}} | death_place = Écouen | othername = | occupation = Poet<br>Chansonnier | years_active = | spouse = | signature = }}
'''Pierre-Joseph Charrin''' (2 February 1784 – 25 April 1863) was a 19th-century French poet, chansonnier, playwright and goguettier.
He was a member of the ''Caveau moderne'' and founder, in 1813, of the ''Soupers de Momus''.<ref name=SOUPDEMOM>Charrin annonce sa qualité de fondateur des ''Soupers de Momus'' on the cover of the ''[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5625254s.r=Armand+Gouff%C3%A9+fous.langFR Album poétique, ou Choix de romances et de chansons des auteurs les plus connus, recueillies par J.-P. Charrin, Membre de plusieurs Académies, Convive, Fondateur des Soupers de Momus.]'' The initials of the two names have been reversed here by mistake.</ref>
14 August 1814, he was received in the ''Caveau lyonnais''. On that occasion he wrote reception couplets.<ref>''[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5453971f/f117.image.pagination Conseils Épicuriens, à mes Confrères les Membres du Caveau lyonnais],'' Couplets de réception, chantés au Banquet du 14 août 1814.</ref>
In 1815, in collaboration with César de Proisy d'Eppe, Alexis Eymery, René Perrin and Joseph Tastu, he was one of the five editors of the ''[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1186341.r=Dictionnaire+des+Girouettes.langFR ''Dictionnaire des girouettes, ou Nos contemporains peints d'après eux-mêmes ... par une société de girouettes...'']'' This 444 pages book which stigmatized the opportunists of the period 1789-1815, including illustrious members of the ''Caveau moderne'' such as Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de Piis and Emmanuel Dupaty, contributed to the demise of that society in 1817.
== Selected works == ;Poetry *1808: [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5625254s ''Le Cimetière de village ; Tobie, ou les Captifs de Ninive ; mes Loisirs''] *1817: ''le Passe-temps'' *1825: ''Album poétique''.
;Theatre {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| *1806: ''Les deux Forteresses'', Théâtre de l'Ambigu *1806: ''la Forêt d'Edimbourg'', Théâtre de la Gaîté *1815: [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5836603x ''Amour, honneur et devoir, ou le Rapt''], three-act melodrama in prose, imitated from Calderon, Théâtre de l'Ambigu *1820: ''Mahomet II'', Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin *1832: ''Un Mariage à bout portant ; Lequel des deux ?'' in collaboration with M. Lesguillon (comedy) *1833: ''l'Égalité devant la loi'', Théâtre du Panthéon *1834: ''Vingt-quatre heures d'un Duelliste'' *1834: [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5600210h ''un Roi en vacances''], comédie en vaudeville in 3 acts and 6 tableaux ; this play in three acts and six tableaux was supposed to be given at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu 12 September but was forbidden by censorship the very same day. *1850: ''l'Oubli du Devoir''. *1851: ''une Fleur et un Soufflet'' (comedy). }}
;Songs *1816: ''L'Enfant lyrique du Carnaval'', published by Ourry, includes the song ''Les Amours d'un jeune Tambour''. It was wrongly attributed to M. Delorme.<ref>A rectification for the attribution is inserted in ''[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6152428w/f253.pagination L'Enfant lyrique du Carnaval]'' de 1818.</ref> *1817: [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5453971f ''Les Passe-Tems d'un momusien, ou Chansons et poésies''] by P.-J. Charrin *1817: [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5801612h ''Les soirées de famille'']. Tome 1, contes, nouvelles, traits historiques et anecdotes ; recueil philosophique, moral et divertissant * ''[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5453971f/f3.image.pagination Les Passe-Tems d'un momusien, ou Chansons et poésies]'' de P.-J. Charrin, Membre de plusieurs Académies, Convive des soupers de Momus, etc. Ornés de 4 Gravures et de 8 Airs notés. Locard et Davi éditeurs, Paris 1817, 201 pages. * The collection by Théophile-Marion Dumersan and Noël Ségur, ''Chansons nationales et populaires de France précédées d'une Histoire de la chanson française et accompagnées de notes historiques et littéraires'' , 17th edition, reworked ans augmented, Garnier frères éditeur, Paris 1866, contains 12 songs by Pierre-Joseph Charrin.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/chansonsnational02dume#page/507/mode/2up Pages containing references of the 12 songs from Charrin].</ref>
== See also == * Goguette
== References == {{Reflist}}
== Sources == * ''La Muse gauloise. Journal de la chanson par tous et pour tous.'', numéro 8, 15 juin 1863.
== External links == * [http://data.bnf.fr/11896232/pierre_joseph_charrin/ Pierre Joseph Charrin] on data.bnf.fr {{Authority control}}
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