# Joseph Pain

Marie Joseph Pain (4 August 1773, Paris – March 1830, ibid.) was a 19th-century French playwright, poet and essayist.

## Biography

A member of the Société du Caveau [fr], censor and office manager at the Prefecture of the Seine under the Bourbon Restoration, chief editor of the magazine Le Drapeau blanc [fr], he is known as one of the pioneers of vaudevillism. His plays, some of which achieved a major success, were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre du Vaudeville, the Théâtre du Gymnase-Dramatique, and the Théâtre des Variétés.

## Works

* 1792: Saint-Far, ou la Délicatesse de l'amour, comedy in 1 act, in verse
* 1794: Les Chouans, ou La Républicaine de Malestroit, with François Marie Joseph Riou de Kersalaün
* 1794: Le Naufrage au port, comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles
* 1798: Le Roi de pique, comedy in 1 act and in verse
* 1798: L'Appartement à louer, comedy épisodique mingled with vaudevilles
* 1799: Le Connaisseur, comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles
* 1799: La Marchande de plaisir, vaudeville in 1 act
* 1800: Florian, comedy in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Jean-Nicolas Bouilly
* 1800: Téniers, comedy in 1 act and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Bouilly
* 1801: Allez voir Dominique, comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles
* 1802: Berquin, ou l'Ami des enfans, comedy in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Bouilly
* 1802: Le Méléagre champenois, ou la Chasse interrompue, folie-vaudeville in 1 act
* 1802: Le Procès, ou la Bibliothèque de Patru, comedy in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles
* 1803: Fanchon la vielleuse, comedy in 3 acts, mingled with vaudeville, with Bouilly
* 1804: Théophile, ou les Deux poètes, comedy in 1 act and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Théophile Marion Dumersan
* 1805: La Belle Marie, comédie-anecdote in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Dumersan
* 1805: Le Portrait du duc, comedy in 3 acts and in prose, with Ludwig Benedict Franz von Bilderbeck
* 1806: Brutal, ou Il vaut mieux tard que jamais, vaudeville in 1 act and in prose, parodie of Uthal, with Pierre-Ange Vieillard
* 1806: Point d'adversaire, opéra comique in 1 act
* 1807: Amour et mystère, ou Lequel est mon cousin ?, comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles
* 1807: Laurette, opera in 1 act, music by Stanislas Champein
* 1808: La Chaumière moscovite, vaudeville anecdote in 1 act, with Dumersan
* 1808: Rien de trop, comedy in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles
* 1809: Benoît ou Le pauvre de Notre Dame, comédie-anecdote in 2 acts and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Dumersan
* 1809: Le Roi et le pèlerin, comedy in 2 acts and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Dumersan
* 1809: Le Manuscrit déchiré, bagatelle (trifle) in 1 act, in prose
* 1810: Le Père d'occasion, comedy in 1 act, with Vieillard
* 1810: La Vieillesse de Piron, comedy in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Bouilly
* 1810: L'Homme de quarante ans, ou Le Rôle de comédie, comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles
* 1810: Encore une partie de chasse, ou le Tableau d'histoire, comédie-anecdote in 1 act, in verse, with Dumersan
* 1810: Deux pour un, comedy in 1 act mingled with vaudevilles, with Henri Dupin
* 1810: Rien de trop ou Les Deux paravents, opéra comique in 1 act, music by François-Adrien Boïeldieu
* 1811: Le Dîner d'emprunt, ou Les lettres de Carnaval, vaudeville in 1 act, with Dupin
* 1812: Les Mines de Beaujonc, ou Ils sont sauvés, fait historique in 3 acts, mingled with couplets, with Dumersan
* 1813: Les Rêveurs éveillés, parade magnétique in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Vieillard
* 1816: Le Revenant, ou l'Héritage, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, in prose, with Dupin
* 1818: La Statue de Henri IV, ou la Fête du Pont-Neuf, tableau grivois in 1 act, with René de Chazet, Marc-Antoine Désaugiers and Michel-Joseph Gentil de Chavagnac
* 1819: Voyage au hasard
* 1820: Poésies de M. Joseph Pain
* 1823: Jenny la Bouquetière, opéra comique, with Bouilly
* 1826: Le Bonhomme, comedy in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with Pierre Carmouche and Antoine Simonnin
* 1828: Nouveaux tableaux de Paris, ou Observations sur les mœurs et usages des Parisiens au commencement du XIXe siècle, 2 vols
* 1844: Adieux à l'Aveyron, in Poésies aveyronnaises by Adrien de Séguret