Roger-Timothée Régnard de Pleinchesne (15 March 1728 – ) was an 18th-century French playwright.
Career A former infantry captain and governor of the king's pages, Régnard de Pleinchesne wrote some dramas he presented from 1765 to 1810.
He also founded, in 1781, a facility in the foire Saint-Laurent in Paris called the Redoute chinoise.
Works Le Charbonnier est maître chez lui, ou la Partie de chasse, pantomime (Paris 1775) Le Malentendu, French comedy in the Italian genre in thre3 acts, given at the Comédie-Italienne in Paris La Vérité, two-act comedy, écrite à la louange du roi et de la reine Le Prince Tiri, id. Le Fanfaron, id. Le B*** tiré, opéra comique L'Épreuve de Marivaux, opéra comique L'Heureux Engagement, one-act opéra comique Le Bon Médecin, five-act opéra comique Berthe, comédie héroï-pastorale in three acts and in verse, mingled with ariettes presented at the théâtre de Bruxelles December 1774 La Guinguette, ambigu-comique Le Degré des âges Le Jardinier de Sidon, two-act comedy, mingled with ariettes, Comédiens italiens, 18 July 1768 Le Mariage par exemple ou les Époux à l’épreuve, one-act comedy
See also
List of French writers List of playwrights
References
Sources Émile Campardon, Les Spectacles de la foire, Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1877, p. 304 Frédéric Faber, Histoire du théâtre français en Belgique depuis son origine jusqu'à nos jours, t. 2, Bruxelles, Fr. J. Olivier, 1879 p. 86
External links All his plays and their presentations on CÉSAR Roger-Timothée Régnard de Pleinchesne on Roger-Timothée Régnard de Pleinchesne on Universität Bonn