Étienne-Auguste Dossion

Étienne-Auguste Dossion
Born 9 August 1770
Paris
Died 3 October 1832(1832-10-03) (aged 62)
Paris
Occupation Playwright
Poet

Étienne-Auguste Dossion (9 August 1770 – 3 October 1832) was a French playwright and poet.

Biography

The son of a extra dancer at the Paris Opera, Dossion was "one of these writers-actors who contributed to the formation of the song repertoire, and one of the most fruitful."[1] He had an existence for the less agitated. He was successively a notary clerk, a prompter and a Harlequin at the Théâtre du Vaudeville, a master of studies at Collège Sainte-Barbe, a bridges inspector, an employee at the Interior Ministry under Corbière, dismissed through the influence of Godiche because he always threw him tobacco puffs and he smelled of eau de vie, a launderer at Vaugirard, before finishing a day laborer and dying at the Hôtel-Dieu.

Works

References

  1. Léon Guichard, La Musique et les lettres au temps du romantisme, Plan de la Tour, Éditions d’Aujourd’hui, 1984, texte conforme à l’édition originale, Paris, PUF, 1955, 423nb p., ISBN 978-2-73070-242-3, (p. 29).

Sources

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