• Source: Albert de Saint-Albin

      • Albert de Saint-Albin (1843, in Paris – 18 December 1901, in Paris) was a 19th-century French playwright, journalist, chansonnier and librettist.


      Biography



      A journalist at Le Temps, chief editor of the Jockey (1866) and the Le Figaro (1880), he was known as a sports columnist under the pseudonym Robert Milton and was a great promoter of fencing.
      His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century, including the Théâtre des Variétés, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, the Théâtre du Vaudeville, and the Théâtre de la Gaîté.
      Moreover, Saint-Albin was a great collector of paintings by Eugène Boudin of which he owned a dozen works and by Gustave Moreau.


      Works




      = Theatre

      =
      1875: Le Manoir de Pictordu, comédie-opérette in 3 acts, with Arnold Mortier
      1876: La Belle Poule, three-act opéra bouffe, with Hector Crémieux
      1877: La Foire Saint-Laurent, three-act opéra bouffe, with Crémieux and Jacques Offenbach
      1879: Le Grand Casimir, three-act opérette, with Jules Prével and Charles Lecocq
      1884: Le Train de plaisir, four-act comedy, with Alfred Hennequin and Mortier
      1885: Mam'zelle Gavroche, comédie-opérette, with Edmond Gondinet
      1885: Monsieur le Député, one-act comedy
      1888: Les Joyeusetés de l'année
      1891: Monsieur l'abbé ou la Belle-mère apprivoisée
      1893: Leurs gigolettes
      1895: Panurge, opéra comique, with Robert Planquette and Henri Meilhac
      1906: Le Péril jaune, three-act comedy, with Alexandre Bisson, posth.


      = Sport

      =
      1875: Les Salles d'armes de Paris
      1875: Le Sportman
      1889: Les sports à Paris, 2 vol.
      1889: Les cirques
      1890: Les courses de chevaux en France, Hachette
      1899: Les Courses de lévriers, le coursing, greyhounds et fox-terriers by Alfred de Sauvenière, preface
      undated: À travers les salles d'armes


      = Songs

      =
      1874: Le Langage des yeux !, with Prével et Lecocq
      1874: Les Oiseaux en cage, with Auguste Coédès
      1878: Pas de récompense. Plaintes d'une Parisienne, with Coédès
      1885: Barcarolle d'Asnières
      1894: L'Ascenseur !


      Bibliography


      Henri Avenel, La presse française au vingtième siècle, 1901, p. 435
      Manuel Gómez García, Diccionario Akal de Teatro, 1998, p. 745
      Jacques Marchand, Les défricheurs de la presse sportive, 1999, p. 98
      Kurt Gänzl, The encyclopedia of the musical theatre, 2001, p. 1778


      References




      External links


      Albert de Saint-Albin on data.bnf.fr
      Albert de Saint-Albin on The Online Books Page
      Les sports à Paris on Gallica

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