Armand Joseph Overnay (1 November 1798 – 14 September 1869) was a 19th-century French chansonnier and playwright.

He was a son of the chansonnier Nicolas Jean Marie Overnay (born in 1769), one of the members of the Soupers de Momus, and an examiner of dramatic works. Armand Joseph Overnay's plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, the Théâtre du Gymnase, and the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Antoine.

Works

1819: Les Bolivars et les Morillos, caricatures in action, in 1 act mingled with vaudevilles, with Gabriel de Lurieu 1820: Le Mari confident, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Jean Berrier and E. F. Varez 1821: L'Épicurien malgré lui, vaudeville in 1 act, with Berrier 1823: Les Deux Lucas, vaudeville in 1 act, with Berrier 1823: Fanny, melodrama in 3 acts, extravaganza, with Lamarque de Saint-Victor 1824: Félix et Roger, one-act play, with Berrier and Hippolyte Lévesque 1825: L'Entrée à Reims, divertissement in 1 act, with Antoine-Marie Coupart and Jacques-André Jacquelin 1825: Les Deux réputations, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Théodore Nézel 1826: Six mois de constance, comédy in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with Nézel and Berrier 1826: Le Banqueroutier, melodrama in 3 acts, with Nézel 1826: La Couturière, drama in 3 acts, with Nézel 1826: La Nuit des noces, drama in 3 acts, with Nézel 1826: La dame voilée, comedy in 3 acts, with Berrier and Nézel 1826: La Chambre de Clairette, ou les Visites par la fenêtre, vaudeville in 1 act, with Nézel 1827: Cartouche, melodrama in 3 acts, with Nézel 1827: Sainte-Périne, ou l'Asile des vieillards, tableau-vaudeville in 1 act, with Théaulon and Eugène de Lamerlière 1828: Le Chasseur noir, melodrama in 3 acts extravaganza, with Benjamin Antier, Frédérick Lemaître and Nézel 1830: Les lanciers et les marchandes de modes, one-act play, mingled with couplets, with Antier, Nézel and Varez 1830: Je ne chanterai plus ou Les derniers moments d'un épicurien, romance, adagio 1831: John Bull, ou le Chaudronnier anglais, play in 2 acts, with Nézel and Varez 1831: La Fille unique, vaudeville in 1 act, with Michel-Nicolas Balisson de Rougemont and Saint-Amand 1831: Le Watchman, drama in 3 acts and 6 tableaux, with Antier and Adrien Payn 1831: Le Tir et le restaurant, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Nézel and Payn 1831: Les Fous dramatiques, vaudeville in 1 act, with Saint-Amand 1833: Marie-Rose, ou la Nuit de Noël, drama in 3 acts, with Saint-Amand and Payn 1834: Judith et Holopherne, an episode of the first war of Spain, vaudeville in 2 acts, with Emmanuel Théaulon and Nézel 1835: L'heure du rendez-vous 1835: Un talisman sous M. de Sartines, vaudeville in 1 act, with Nézel 1836: Le Doyen de Killerine, comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, after the novel by abbé Prévost, with Payn 1837: Lebel, ou Le premier valet de chambre, comédie-vaudeville en un act 1838: L'Enfant de Paris, ou Misère et liberté, vaudeville in 1 act, with Nézel 1840: La Peur du tonnerre, vaudeville in 1 act, with Payn 1846: Souvenir de l'Empire, comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts 1850: Les Deux célibats, comedy in 3 acts, in prose, with Jules de Wailly 1850: La famille du mari, comedy in 3 acts, with de Wailly 1851: Contre fortune bon cœur, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with de Wailly

See also Gabriel-Alexandre Belle

Bibliography Joseph Marie Quérard, Félix Bourquelot, Charles Louandre, La littérature française contemporaine. XIXe siècle, 1854, p. 569-570 Pierre LaroueGabriel-Alexandre Bellesse, Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle (suppl.), vol.16, 1864 Jules Gay, Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs à l'amour, aux femmes, 1872, p. 397