Adolphe Philippe d'Ennery French playwright and novelist.
Adolphe d'Ennery was born on 17 June 1811 in Paris, France..
Adolphe d'Ennery
French playwright and novelist
Adolphe d'Ennery (French pronunciation:[adɔlfdɛnʁi]; or Dennery; né Adolphe Philippe; 17 June 1811 – 25 January 1899) was a French playwright and novelist.
Life
Born in Paris, his real surname was Philippe.[citation needed] He obtained his first success in collaboration with Charles Desnoyer in Émile, ou le fils d'un pair de France (1831), a drama which was the first of a series of some two hundred pieces written alone or in collaboration with other dramatists.
He died in Paris in 1899.[1]
Works
Among the best of his works is a play about Kaspar Hauser (1838) with Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois; Les Bohémiens de Paris (1842) with Eugène Grangé; with Julien de Mallian the play Marie-Jeanne, ou la femme du peuple (1845), in which Marie Dorval obtained a great success; a drama based on Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853) with Dumanoir; and The Two Orphans (1875), perhaps his best