Francis Cornu
Francis Cornu (4 October 1794 – 7 March 1848) was a French playwright. After he made excellent studies in Paris, he lost his father and at the young age of 17, had to work for a living. He entered as an employee at the prefecture of Nièvre. In 1815, suspected of supporting the Bourbons, he was removed from office. He then entered into business house then into a bank where he became chief clerk. Having already composed verses in Latin, he made his debut in 1816 in Lyon in the vaudeville genre. In 1819, he moved to Paris and worked again first as a bank clerk (1819-1825). His first plays did not get any success. Le forçat libéré in 1829, performed at the Ambigu-Comique was even booed. Finally, it is Isaure which was met with success that made him known. His plays, including many in collaboration with Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, will then be regularly performed on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre du Gymnase dramatique, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, Théâtre des Variétés etc. In 1841, he became managing director of the Theatre at Antwerp. La suite de je fais mes farces, vaudeville, 1816 L'Enfant de Paris ou le débit de consolations, lithographies in action, with Armand d'Artois and Gabriel de Lurieu, 1823 Partie et revanche, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Nicolas Brazier and Eugène Scribe, 1823 Les Acteurs à l’auberge, comedy in 1 act, with Maurice Alhoy and Armand-François Jouslin de La Salle, 1825 Isaure, drame en 3 actes, mingled with song, with Benjamin Antier and Théodore Nézel, 1829 Le Forçat libéré, melodrama in three acts, with Armand Séville, 1829 Napoléon, historical play in three parts, mingled with songs, with Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, 1830 Une nuit au Palais-Royal, ou la Garde nationale en 1830, tableau-vaudeville, with A. Bourgeois, 1830 La Belle-Fille, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with A. Bourgeois, 1831 Le Boa, ou le Bossu à la mode, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Achille d'Artois, 1831 Les Chouans, ou Coblentz et Quiberon, drama in 3 acts, with A.