Louis-Nicolas Brette Saint-Ernest

Louis-Nicolas Brette Saint-Ernest (3 May 1802 – 10 March 1860) was a 19th-century French actor and playwright.

Louis-Nicolas Brette Saint-Ernest
Born	3 May 1802 Orléans
Died	10 March 1860(1860-03-10) (aged 57) Paris
Occupation	Comedian, playwright

Biography

A master study in Paris and assistant bricklayer, he began acting in 1829 before being hired in 1832 by the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin. He then played for the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique from 1837 to 1852. He often appeared in the role of the father in many sentimental plays.

Most of the time, his own plays that he signed Saint-Ernest, were presented at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, of which he was managing director from 1848 to 1852. In 1852, he became dramaturge on the stage of the théâtre du Cirque, a position he still held when he died in 1860.

Works

• 1832: Le naufrage de la Méduse
• 1834: Le juif errant
• 1835: Jeanne de Flandre
• 1837: Le corsaire noir
• 1837: L'honneur de ma mère
• 1837: Rose Ménard, ou Trop bonne mère, three-act drama, preceded by l'Aîné et le cadet, prologue in 1 act, with Auguste-Louis-Désiré Boulé
• 1838: Le chevalier du Temple
• 1838: Don Pèdre le mendiant, four-act drama, with Fabrice Labrousse
• 1838: L'élève de Saint-Cyr
• 1841: Jacques Coeur, l'argentier du roi
• 1842: Gaëtan il Mammone
• 1844: Jeanne, drama in 6 parts and 2 periods, with Boulé and Jules Chabot de Bouin
• 1845: Les mousquetaires
• 1845: Les talismans
• 1846: La closerie des genêts
• 1850: Notre Dame de Paris
• 1851: Henri le Lion, drama in 6 acts and 2 periods, with Eugène Fillot

Bibliography

• Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, 1861, (p. 1545)
• Henry Lyonnet, Dictionnaire des comédiens français, 1911, (p. 617)
• Claude Schopp, Le théâtre historique: Directeurs, décorateurs, musique, 2009, (p. 71)