Albert de Saint-Albin

Albert de Saint-Albin (1843, in Paris – 18 December 1901, in Paris) was a 19th-century French playwright, journalist, chansonnier and librettist.

Biography
Albert de Saint Albin

A journalist at Le Temps, chief editor of the Jockey (1866) and the Le Figaro (1880), he was known as a sports columnist under the pseudonym Robert Milton and was a great promoter of fencing.[1]

His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century, including the Théâtre des Variétés, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, the Théâtre du Vaudeville, and the Théâtre de la Gaîté.

Moreover, Saint-Albin was a great collector of paintings by Eugène Boudin of which he owned a dozen works[2] and by Gustave Moreau.[3]

Works

Theatre

Sport
  • 1875: Les Salles d'armes de Paris
  • 1875: Le Sportman
  • 1889: Les sports à Paris, 2 vol.
  • 1889: Les cirques
  • 1890: Les courses de chevaux en France, Hachette
  • 1899: Les Courses de lévriers, le coursing, greyhounds et fox-terriers by Alfred de Sauvenière, preface
  • undated: À travers les salles d'armes

Songs
  • 1874: Le Langage des yeux !, with Prével et Lecocq
  • 1874: Les Oiseaux en cage, with Auguste Coédès
  • 1878: Pas de récompense. Plaintes d'une Parisienne, with Coédès
  • 1885: Barcarolle d'Asnières
  • 1894: L'Ascenseur !

Bibliography
  • Henri Avenel, La presse française au vingtième siècle, 1901, p. 435
  • Manuel Gómez García, Diccionario Akal de Teatro, 1998, p. 745
  • Jacques Marchand, Les défricheurs de la presse sportive, 1999, p. 98
  • Kurt Gänzl, The encyclopedia of the musical theatre, 2001, p. 1778
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References
  1. Baron de Vaux, Les hommes d'épée, 1882, p.45
  2. See: Rudolf Koella, Eugène Boudin (1824-1898): à l'aube de l'impressionnisme, 2000, p.129 and Laurent Manœuvre, Eugène Boudin, Limoges, Musée municipal de l'Évêché, 1er juillet – 31 août 1989, catalogue d'exposition, p.18
  3. Edmond de Goncourt, L'art du XVIIIe siècle, 1901, p.176
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