François-Nicolas Alphonse Signol,(Saint-Mandé c. 1800 – Vincennes, 26 June 1830) was an early 19th-century French playwright and novelist.

Biography

His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre des Variétés, the Théâtre des Nouveautés, and the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique. His novel Le Commissionnaire is sometimes attributed to George Sand and Jules Sandeau who allegedly used his name for promotion.

Alphonse Signol

He was killed in a duel against a military after an altercation at the Théâtre italien de Paris.

Alphonse Signol

Works

1826: De la maçonnerie considérée dans quelques-uns de ses rapports avec la politique 1828: Le Caporal et le Paysan, with Armand d'Artois 1828: Le Duel, drama in 2 acts 1828: Jean, play in three parts, mingled with couplets, with Emmanuel Théaulon 1828: L'École de natation, tableau-vaudeville in 1 act, with Adolphe de Leuven and Charles de Livry 1829: Apologie du duel, ou Quelques mots sur le nouveau projet de loi 1829: Le Pacha et la Vivandière, folie vaudeville in 3 tableaux 1830: La Lingère, ou la Vie de Paris en 1830, 5 vol. 1830: Mémorial de Sir Hudson Lowe, relatif à la captivité de Napoléon 1831: Le Chiffonnier, 5 vol., with Stanislas Macaire 1831: Le Commissionnaire, mœurs du XIXe

Alphonse Signol

Bibliography

Joseph Marie Quérard, La France littéraire ou dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, vol.8, 1838, p. 136 Louis Gabriel Michaud, Biographie universelle, vol.82, 1849, p. 236-237 Pierre Chevallier, Histoire de la Franc-Maçonnerie française, 1974 François Guillet, La Mort en face : Histoire du duel en France, 2010

References

19th-century French dramatists and playwrights

19th-century French novelists

People from Saint-Mandé

1800 births

Duelling fatalities

1830 deaths