Joseph Pain

Marie Joseph Pain (4 August 1773, Paris – March 1830, ibid.)

was a 19th-century French playwright, poet and essayist.

A member of the Société du Caveau [fr], censor and office manager at the Prefecture of the Seine under the Bourbon Restoration, chief editor of the magazine Le Drapeau blanc [fr], he is known as one of the pioneers of vaudevillism.

[1] His plays, some of which achieved a major success,[2] were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre du Vaudeville, the Théâtre du Gymnase-Dramatique, and the Théâtre des Variétés.

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