Ernest Grenet-Dancourt

Ernest Louis Antoine Grenet called Ernest Grenet-Dancourt ( 21 February 1854[1] – 10 February 1913)[2] was a French playwright, poet and songwriter.

Born in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, after studying at the Lycée Saint-Louis, Grenet became a maître d'études, then a bank clerk, before embarking on a career as an actor at the Théâtre de l'Odéon, which he abandoned for good in 1881[3] to devote himself exclusively to writing.

His plays were performed on the greatest Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre de Cluny, Théâtre des Nouveautés, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, Théâtre de l'Odéon, etc.

Vice-president of the Les Hydropathes [fr] of 1879 and 1884,[4] he was also responsible for some songs: Fleur d'amour, music by Justin Clérice [fr] (1910), La Kraquette, song written with Georges Nanteuil [fr] (music by Justin Clérice), Tristesse de la mer, music by Alfredo Barbirolli (1912)... Grenet died in the 9th arrondissement of Paris aged 66.

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