Jean-Élie Bédéno Dejaure


Jean-Élie Bédéno Dejaure was an 18th-century French playwright. His son, Jean-Claude Bédéno Dejaure, called Dejaure fils was also a playwright.

Life

When he presented his first plays to the Italian actors, for them to treat him with some respect, Dejaure had added the title "Baron" to his name, although he was the son of a merchant. But after his early success, he renounced this title, which he no longer needed. From 1789 to 1795, he gave the Comédie-Italienne as well as the Théâtre-Français, eighteen theatre plays, comedies, operas and opéras comiques, of little invention but interesting, with dramatic effects and morality, which have been successful for most of them.

Main works