Louis-Émile Vanderburch

Louis-Émile Vanderburch
Born 30 September 1794
Paris
Died 30 March 1862(1862-03-30) (aged 67)
Rueil-Malmaison
Occupation Writer, playwright

Louis-Émile Vanderburch (30 September 1794 – 30 March 1862) was an 19th-century French writer and playwright. The painter Dominique Joseph Vanderburch (1722–1785) 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 (Loiret) which now houses the city hall of this town of 10,000 inhabitants.[1]

Works

Theatre (selection)
Other

Bibliography

Funds Vanderburch

From a gift of Philippe Collin, his great-nephew, the Émile Vanderburch funds gathers at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Department of Performing Arts) personal papers, the manuscripts of 9 unpublished plays and 8 published plays, 4 collections of poetry and songs, 3 handwritten works of his youth, intimate writings, correspondence, programs, documents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.

References

  1. Charles Vander-Burch Fils, Biographie d'un homme de lettres, Imprimerie veuve Théolier Ainé et Cie, In-8°, 19 pages, Saint-Etienne, 1863
  2. « Je n'ai pas voulu dîner avant de vous écrire, parce que je n'aurais pas pu manger et puis je pense que si vous voulez voir Jacques II vous viendrez me prendre de bonne heure et qu'il faut que je sois prête. Alors je vous baise les mains, les pieds, quoi encore ? Tout votre joli petit corps ». Letter by Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo, 13 July 1835.
  3. J.M. Quérard, Les supercheries littéraires dévoilées, galerie des auteurs apocryphes...
  4. « Voilà M. Émile Vanderburch qui a obtenu dans le vaudeville des succès étourdissants [...] : on se souvient de la vogue du Gamin de Paris, de Clermont ou la Femme artiste. Est-ce ambition ? Est-ce absence d'idées à vaudevilles ? M. Vanderburch a, un beau jour, renoncé au théâtre et s'est mis à fabriquer des romans de mœurs et puis il vous a taillé à grands coups de ciseaux, une histoire de France. » p. 122.
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