Amédée de Jallais


Amédée de Jallais was a 19th-century French playwright, operetta librettist and chansonnier.

Biography

The son of a lieutenant colonel in the guards, he studied at the College Bourbon then entered in the insurance company La Nationale as employee, a position he will leave to devote himself entirely to literature after the success of his comedy Un de perdu, une de retrouvée.
Collaborator of the Gazette des théâtres, then of the Messager des théâtres, he became managing director of the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques then after the blaze of this theatre on 22 May 1871, of the Théâtre des Menus-Plaisirs. Administrator dof the Théâtre Déjazet, general secretary of the Théâtre de la République, he married the actress Eudoxie Laurent in 1862.
He wrote more than two hundred plays which were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques etc.

Works