Louis Péricaud

Louis Jean Péricaud (10 June 1835, La Rochelle – 12 November 1909, Paris) was a 19th-century French stage actor, chansonnier, playwright, theatre historian and theatre director.

He was the father of actress Berthe Jalabert (1858–c.1935) and the uncle of actor Gustave Hamilton (1871-1951).

Works

Selected plays
  • 1864: Le Diable au Havre, grande revue-féerie in 4 acts and 5 tableaux, with Richard Lesclide, Théâtre du Havre, 13 January
  • 1873: À cache-cache comedy in one act in verse and in prose, with Carle Le Dhuy, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 25 July
  • 1876: Les Trois grâces, pochade musicale, with Lucien Delormel and Gaston Villemer, Alcazar d'Été
  • 1877: La Jeunesse de Béranger, one-act operetta, music by Firmin Bernicat, L'Eldorado, 20 January
  • 1878: Une aventure de Clairon, one-act operetta, with Gaston Villemer, L'Eldorado, 23 November
  • 1881: Les Chevau-Légers, one-act operetta, with Lucien Delormel, music by Robert Planquette, L'Eldorado, 15 December
  • 1885: Les Français au Tonkin, military play in 5 acts and 10 tableaux, including one prologue, with Gaston Marot and Henri Noellet, Paris, Théâtre du Château-d'Eau, 9 February
  • 1886: Le Père Chasselas, drama in 5 acts, with Jean Athis, music by George Rose Théâtre du Château-d'Eau, 19 November
  • 1887: Les Grenadiers de Mont-Cornette, opéra bouffe in 3 acts, with Lucien Delormel, music by Charles Lecocq, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, 4 January
  • 1887: Polichinelle, drama in 5 acts and 8 tableaux, extractc from the Mansardes de Paris by Pierre Zaccone, with Ernest Vois, Bordeaux, Bouffes-Bordelais, 9 June
  • 1889: Jack l'éventreur, drama in 5 acts and 7 tableaux, with Gaston Marot, Théâtre du Château-d'Eau, 30 August
  • 1891: Madame la maréchale, play in 3 acts, with Alphonse Lemonnier, Théâtre de l'Ambigu, 8 June
  • 1893: La Mère la Victoire, drama in 5 acts and 7 tableaux, with Gaston Marot, Théâtre du Château-d'Eau, 10 March
  • 1894: La Belle limonadière, drama in 5 acts and 8 tableaux, with Émile Blondet, Théâtre de l'Ambigu, 20 July
  • 1895: La Belle Grêlée, drama in 5 acts and 7 tableaux, from the novel by Alexis Bouvier, with Stéphen Lemonnier, Théâtre de la République, 10 December
  • 1897: L'Hercule Farnèse, one-act comedy, Théâtre de Cluny, 2 September
  • 1898: La Fille aux écus, drama in 5 acts, Théâtre de la République, 20 August
  • 1898: La Turlutaine de Marjolin, comédie en vaudeville in 3 acts, with Maurice Soulié and Charles Darantière, Théâtre Déjazet, 30 November
  • 1903: L'Hameçon, comédie en vaudeville in 3 acts, with Charles Darantière and Louis Bouvet, Théâtre-Trianon, 17 February
  • 1906: L'Hôtellerie sanglante, drama in 5 acts and 7 tableaux, from the novel by Paul Mahalin, Théâtre Montparnasse, 20 January
  • 1906: La Mioche dorée, drama in 5 acts, with Alphonse Lemonnier, Théâtre de la Gaîté, 14 June
  • 1909! Pierre de lune, play in 5 acts and 7 tableaux, after Wilkie Collins, with Henri Desfontaines, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 15 June
History of theatre
  • 1863: Voyage à travers le théâtre
  • 1897: Le Théâtre des Funambules, ses mimes, ses acteurs et ses pantomimes, depuis sa fondation jusqu'à sa démolition Text online
  • 1908: Histoire de l'histoire des grands et des petits théâtres de Paris pendant la Révolution, le Consulat et l'Empire : Théâtre de Monsieur
  • 1909: Histoire de l'histoire des grands et des petits théâtres de Paris pendant la Révolution, le Consulat et l'Empire : Théâtre des Petits comédiens de S. A. S. Mgr le Cte de Beaujolais Text online
  • 1922: Le Panthéon des comédiens, de Molière à Coquelin aîné, preface by Coquelin aîné Text online

Some performances

As director
Comedian

Sources

  • Henry Lyonnet, Dictionnaire des comédiens français, Genève : Bibliothèque de la Revue universelle internationale illustrée, 1902–1908, vol. II, p. 516-518
  • Louis Péricaud on Art Lyrique
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