Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet - Main Works

Main Works

Viennet's setbacks in the theatre never discouraged him from writing, and he continued to produce works throughout his life. The list below does not include many works rejected by the Paris Opéra or the theatres and so never produced.

  • Aspasie et Périclès, 1 act opera, music by Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul (nephew and student of Méhul), Paris, Théâtre de l'Académie royale de musique, 17 July 1820 ;
  • Clovis, 5 act tragedy, Paris, Théâtre Français, 19 October 1820 ;
  • Promenade philosophique au cimetière du Père-Lachaise (1824) ;
  • Le Siège de Damas, 5 canto poem, preceded by a preface on the classicists and the romantics (1825) ;
  • Sigismond de Bourgogne, 5 act tragedy, Paris, les Comédiens ordinaires du Roi, 10 September 1825 ;
  • Sédim, ou les Nègres, 3 canto poem (1826) ;
  • la Tour de Montlhéry, histoire du XIIe siècle, novel (1833, 3 vol.), republished in the collection Romans illustrés;
  • Le Château Saint-Ange, novel (1834, 2 vol.) ;
  • Les Serments, 3 act verse comedy, Paris, Théâtre Français, 16 February 1839 ;
  • Fables (1843) ;
  • Michel Brémond, 5 act verse drama, Paris, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 7 March 1846 ;
  • Épîtres et satires, suivies d'un Précis historique sur la satire chez tous les peuples (1847) ;
  • La Course à l'héritage, 5 act verse comedy, Paris, second Théâtre-Français (Odéon), 29 April 1847 ;
  • Les chêne et ses commensaux, fable (1849) ;
  • L'0s à ronger (1849) ;
  • La Jeune tante, 3 act verse comedy (1854) ;
  • Arbogaste, 5 act tragedy (1859) ;
  • Richelieu, 5 act prose drama (1859) ;
  • Selma, 1 act verse drama, Paris, Théâtre de l'Odéon, 14 May 1859 ;
  • La Franciade, 10 canto poem (1863) ;
  • Histoire de la puissance pontificale (1866, 2 vol.), directed against the popes' temporal power ;
  • Souvenirs de la vie militaire de Jean Pons Guillaume Viennet, de l'Académie française (1777-1819), prefaced and annotated by MM. Albert Depréaux and Pierre Jourda (1929) ;
  • Journal de Viennet, pair de France, témoin de trois règnes, 1817-1848. Foreword and afterword by the duc de La Force (1955).

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