Lubize


Lubize, real name Pierre-Michel Martin or Martin-Lubize was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist.
Also known under the pseudonym Morel, he authored more than one hundred vaudevilles, alone or in collaboration.

Biography

The son of Michel Martin, former soldier, and of Marie Lubize whose name he chose as pseudonym, he studied at collège Bourbon and worked first in the office of the Laffitte et Cie bank.
On 21 June 1828, he married Virginie Guyot. and made his debut at theatre in 1832 with a three-act play titled L'Abbaye-aux-Bois, written in collaboration with Pixérécourt.
In May 1844, Lubize became director of the Théâtre du Vaudeville where he succeeded the playwright Jacques-François Ancelot.
At the announcement of his death, the magazine Jean Diable read:
Labize was the uncle of dramatist Henry Becque.

Works