Henri de Tully

Henry de Tully
Born Jules-Henry de Tully
1 May 1798
Paris
Died 12 July 1846(1846-07-12) (aged 48)
Paris
Occupation Librettist, plawright

Jules-Henry de Tully (1 May 1798 – 12 July 1846) was a French librettist and playwright.

Life

A deputy Commissioner of the king at the Monnaie de Paris, a member of the Société Lyrique,[1] an administrator of the Théâtre du Luxembourg,[2] he was co-foundator of the Théâtre Beaumarchais (1835) with Théodore Ferdinand Vallou de Villeneuve.[3]

His theatre plays, often signed with the collective pseudonym Charles Henri[4] were presented on the most famous Parisian stages of the XIXth century, including the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Antoine, and the Théâtre du Vaudeville.

An editor at La Psyché, he also authored several songs.[5]

Works

Bibliography

References

  1. Joseph-Marie Quérard, La France littéraire ou dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, historiens..., 1838, (p. 575)
  2. L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux, Vol.47, 1903, (p. 222)
  3. Joseph Fr. Michaud,Louis Gabriel Michaud, Biographie universelle, vol.85, 1862,(p. 551)
  4. Pseudonym of Tully and Jean Pierre Charles Perrot de Renneville
  5. Quérard, op.cit.
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