Espérance Hippolyte Lassagne (c. 1786 – 1854) was a French chansonnier and playwright during the first half of the 19th century.
Biography An employee at the Palais-Royal (1823) in the administration of the Duke of Orleans (Louis Philippe I) in Paris, he had under him Alexandre Dumas then hired as a copyist, whom he introduced into the literary life.Claude Schopp, Dictionnaire Alexandre Dumas, 2010, He wrote with him the play La Noce et l'Enterrement which would be presented at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin in 1826.
His plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of his fifetime: Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre de l'Odéon, Théâtre des Variétés etc.
Works 1824: La Pièce de circonstance, ou le Théâtre dans la caserne, à-propos-vaudeville 1824: La Rue du Carrousel, ou le Musée en boutique, vaudeville in 1 act, with Théodore Anne 1825: Dansera-t-on ? ou les Deux adjoints, à-propos vaudeville in 1 act, with Paul Ledoux 1825: Les Singes, ou la Parade dans le salon, vaudeville in 1 act, with Rochefort and Brisset 1826: La pêche de Vulcain, ou L'île des fleuves, à-propos mingled with vaudeville, with Mathurin-Joseph Brisset and Edmond Rochefort 1826: Le Prologue impromptu, ou les Acteurs en retard, à propos in 1 act and in vaudevilles, with Marc-Antoine Désaugiers 1826: La Noce et l'Enterrement, play, with Alexandre Dumas and Gustave Vulpian 1828: Le Farceur de société, ou les Suites d'une parade, play in 2 acts, mingled with couplets, with Rochefort 1828: Les Omnibus, ou la Revue en voiture, vaudeville en 4 tableaux, with Frédéric de Courcy and Charles Dupeuty 1828: Le Restaurant, ou le Quart d'heure de Rabelais, tableau-vaudeville in 1 act, with de Courcy undated; Le Retour du guernadier, song
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