Antoine-François Varner (23 April 1789, in Paris – 5 September 1854, in 3rd arrondissement of Paris) was a 19th-century French vaudevillist.
Short biography
After he finished his studies at Collège Sainte-Barbe in Paris, Varner served for a while in the dragoons. He then joined the army and took part to the French invasion of Russia as deputy commissioner of war.
Unemployed under the Bourbon Restoration, he devoted himself to literature and composed comédies en vaudeville, either alone or in collaboration with Scribe, Ymbert, Bayard, Mélesville, Dupin, Delestre-Poirson, Dartois, Le Roux, Brazier, Duvert, Lauzanne, Deslandes and Prémaray.
After 1830, Varner obtained a position as chief clerk at the Prefecture of the Seine, a position that he lost after the French Revolution of 1848.