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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 44 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DENNERY , or D'ENNERY, ADOLPHE (1811—1899), See also:

French dramatist and novelist, whose real surname was PHILIPPE, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 17th of See also:June 1811. He obtained his first success in collaboration with See also:Charles Desnoyer in Emile, ou le fits d'un pair de See also:France (1831), a See also:drama which was the first of a See also:series of some two See also:hundred pieces written alone or in collaboration with other dramatists. Among the best of them may be mentioned Gaspard See also:Hauser (1838) with Anicet See also:Bourgeois; See also:Les Bohemiens de Paris (1842) with See also:Eugene See also:Grange; with Mallian, See also:Marie-Jeanne, ou la femme du peuple (1845), in which Madame Dorval obtained a See also:great success; La See also:Case d'Oncle Tom (1853); Les Deux Orphelines (1875), perhaps his best piece, with Eugene See also:Cormon. He wrote the libretto for See also:Gounod's Tribut de See also:Zamora (1881); with See also:Louis Gallet and Edouard Elan he composed the See also:book of See also:Massenet's See also:Cid (1885); and, again in collaboration with Eugene Cormon, the books of See also:Auber's operas, Le Premier Jour de See also:bonheur (1868) and Rive d'amour (1869). He prepared for the See also:stage See also:Balzac's See also:posthumous See also:comedy Mercadet ou le faiseur, presented at the Gymnase See also:theatre in 1851. See also:Reversing the usual See also:order of See also:procedure, Dennery adapted some of his plays to the See also:form of novels. He died in Paris in 1899.

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