Gabriel de Lurieu

His brother Jules-Joseph-Gabriel de Lurieu (1792–1869), with whom he is sometimes mistaken, was also a playwright, who used the pseudonym "J. Gabriel", under which he cowrote the libretto for the opera La perle du Brésil by Félicien David,[3] and the collective pseudonym "Monsieur Sapajou" (with Armand d'Artois and Francis d'Allarde).

[4] The son of a captain of Dragons from a family of the minor nobility (squire) of the former Forez province, parallel to its inspector general career in the watch of Benevolent Institutions of the City of Paris, he started writing theatre plays.

He authored numerous plays and libretti for opéras comiques, most of them written in collaboration, in particular with Théophile Marion Dumersan, Francis baron d'Allarde, Armand d'Artois, Nicolas Brazier, Eugène Scribe, Bernard Lopez, Élie Sauvage, Alexis Wafflard, Théodore-Ferdinand Vallou de Villeneuve, Auguste-Michel Benoît Gaudichot Masson, Adolphe Charles Adam and Emmanuel Théaulon.

In 1823, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, he married his cousin Louise-Charlotte Gonyn de Lurieu,[5] daughter of a former officer became a magistrate.

When he died, the 7 February 1889 issue of le Figaro wrote: The death has been announced an old playwright, Gabriel de Lurieu.