Adolphe Franconi
French playwright
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| Intro | French playwright | ||
| Places | France | ||
| was | Writer Playwright | ||
| Work field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio Literature | ||
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| Birth | 1801 | ||
| Death | 1 November 1855Paris, Seine, Île-de-France, France (aged 54 years) | ||
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Biography
Henri Adolphe Franconi (1801 – 2 November 1855) was a French playwright and circus performer.
A grandson of Antonio Franconi and son of Henri Franconi, he succeeded him in 1827 as managing director of the Cirque-Olympique. He specialized in training horses. In 1835, he forged an association with Louis Dejean in order to establish a circus tent on the Champs-Élysées, at the Carré Marigny.
He died of a heart attack at the Cirque-Olympique in 1855.
Works
- 1819: Le Soldat laboureur, mimodrama en 1 act
- 1828: Le Chien du régiment, ou l'Exécution militaire, melodrama in 1 act, with Henri Franconi
- 1828: Le Drapeau, military melodrama in 2 acts, a show with Louis Ponet and Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois
- 1828: L'éléphant du roi de Siam, mimodrama in nine tableaux, with Léopold Chandezon and Ferdinand Laloue, (mise-en-scène)
- 1830, L'Empereur, historical events in 5 actes and 18 tableaux, with Ferdinand Laloue and Auguste Lepoitevin de L'Égreville
- 1855: Le Cavalier : cours d'équitation pratique, Michel Lévy brothers