Louis-Émile Vanderburch


Louis-Émile Vanderburch was a 19th-century French writer and playwright. The painter Dominique Joseph Vanderburch was his grandfather.

Biography

After he started a career in teaching as a professor of history, Vanderburch turned to literature and more specifically to theatre. From 1816, he authored more than a hundred theatre plays, some of which were met with great success.
From 1836 to 1853, he lived in the Petit château of La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin which now houses the city hall of this town of 10,000 inhabitants.

Works

;Theatre
;Other
From a gift of Philippe Collin, his great-nephew, the Émile Vanderburch funds gathers at the Bibliothèque nationale de France personal papers, the manuscripts of 9 unpublished plays and 8 published plays, 4 collections of poetry and songs, 3 handwritten works of his youth, intimate writings, correspondence, programs, documents related to his theatrical activity and press articles.