Charles Ménétrier (born 1804 at Vimont (Calvados) - 19 May 1888) was a French theater critic as well as a playwright.
A journalist working for La Tribune,éné L'Entr'acte, Le Magasin pittoresque and the Revue et Gazette des Théâtres, and a friend of Camille Corot, he wrote under the pen name Charles Listener. His plays were presented on the stage of the Gymnase-Enfantin.
Works
1833 : Caliban, par deux ermites de Ménilmontant rentrés dans le monde, with Édouard Pouyat 1836 : Le cœur d'une mère, one-act comédie en vaudeville, with Xavier Veyrat 1837 : Le Nabab, ou la Sœur des anges, one-act comedy, mingled with songs 1840 : Arthur de Bretagne, épisode de l'histoire d'Angleterre (1202), in 1 act, mingled with songs 1841 : Un bal d'enfants, one-act comédie en vaudeville 1842 : Les Enfants d'Armagnac, épisode de l'histoire de Paris, 1418, in 1 act mingled with songs 1876 : Galerie historique de la Comédie Française pour servir de complément à la Troupe de Talma, with Edmond-Denis De Manne
Bibliography
Pierre Larousse, Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle (suppl.), vol.17, 1888 Georges d'Heylli, Dictionnaire des pseudonymes, 1977, (p. 256)
References
External links
Charls Ménétrier on Data.bnf.fr
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
French theatre critics
People from Calvados (department) 1804 births 1888 deaths