René Perin

René Perin (1 November 1774 – 9 May 1858) was a 19th-century French playwright, publisher, translator and novelist. A lawyer and sous-préfet of Montluçon during the Hundred Days, he resigned from his positions when the Bourbons returned to power. He used several pseudonyms such as René de Biborium-Chateauterne or René Biborium de Chateauterne as a writer. His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, the Théâtre du Vaudeville, the Théâtre de l'Odéon, the Théâtre de la Gaîté, and the Théâtre des Variétés. For thirty years he was a collaborator to the Moniteur, and he also wrote historical and geographical studies. Mr Jocrisse au sérail de Constantinople ou les Bêtises sont de tous les pays, calembour en trois actes, 1800 Kosmouk, ou les Indiens à Marseille, comedy in 5 acts and in prose, arrangement of the play by Kotzebue, 1801 Les Nouveaux athées, ou Réfutation des nouveaux saints, ouvrage en moins de 250 vers, enrichi de notes curieuses et historiques, 1801 Respirons !, comedy in 1 act and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, 1801 Tous les niais de Paris, ou le Catafalque de Cadet-Roussel, bluette tragique in 5 acts and in verses, with Pillon-Duchemin, 1801 L'incendie du Cap, ou Le règne de Toussaint-Louverture, 1802 Le flageolet d'Erato, ou le chansonnier du vaudeville, 1802 La Grande ville, ou les Parisiens vengés, comédie épisodique in 3 acts, in prose, with Anne-Adrien-Firmin Pillon-Duchemin, 1802 Fitz Henri, drama in 3 acts, 1803 Le Voyage autour de ma chambre, comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, 1803 Molé aux Champs-Élysées, hommage en vers, mingled with songs and danses, with Pillon-Duchemin, 1803 La mort de Cadet Roussel, tragédie pour rire in 5 acts and in verses, with Pillon-Duchemin, 1803 L'Hermitage des Pyrénées, comedy in 1 act, mingled with song, 1805 L'isle flottante, ou Les Voyageurs aériens, comédie féerie and extravaganza, in 1 act and in prose, 1806 Jules, ou le Toit paternel, melodrama in 3 acts, with Rougemont, 1806 Héléonor de Portugal, melodrama in 3 acts, extravaganza, 1807 Les Comédiens par hasard, comedy in 1 act and in prose, 1807 Les Suites d'un duel, comedy in 3 acts, in prose, 1807 Le Concert de la rue Feydeau ou la Folie du jour, comedy in 1 act, in prose, with Nicolas Cammaille-Saint-Aubin, 1807 L'Héroïsme des femmes, melodrama in 3 acts, extravaganza, ornated with song and dances, 1808 J'arrive à temps, vaudeville in 1 act, 1808 Cosme de Médicis, melodrama in 3 acts, in prose and extravaganza, with Marie-Adélaïde Barthélemy-Hadot, 1809 Vie militaire de J.