Éléonore Tenaille de Vaulabelle

After he spent his youth in Bourgogne, Éléonore de Vaulabelle moved to Paris at the end of the Bourbon restauration.

There he authored articles in several satirical newspapers as well as a daily pamphlet for Le Figaro, where he met Alphonse Karr and George Sand.

In Les Femmes vengées, he developed a theory inspired from Molière: "Women are what we make of them".

But he devoted most of his work to theatre under the pseudonym Jules Cordier, most of the time in collaboration with Clairville.

If he privately adhered to Republican ideas - probably under the influence of his older brother, Achille Tenaille de Vaulabelle, author of Histoire des deux Restaurations and Minister of Education under general Louis-Eugène Cavaignac's presidency in 1848 – in theatre, he expressed his opposition to the regime according to the forms of the time [3]

Coat of arms of the Tenaille de Vaulabelle family: Of "Gules with golden pal, accosted with two fleurs-de-lis of the same and loaded with an azure bayonet"
Coat of arms of the Tenaille de Vaulabelle family: Of " Gules with golden pal , accosted with two fleurs-de-lis of the same and loaded with an azure bayonet"