Jules Seveste (full name Désiré Henri Jules Seveste; 1803 in Paris – 30 June 1854 in Meudon[1]) was a French playwright and theatre manager of the first half of the 19th century.
In 1822 his father Pierre Seveste (1773–1825) appointed Jules and his brother Edmond to his theatre agency (founded c. 1810) which in 1817 had been granted a privilege to open suburban theaters.
[4] On 1 September 1852, Jules succeeded his brother Edmond as managing director of the Opéra-National, after Adolphe Adam refused the position.
[5] Jules Verne, co-librettist with Michel Carré of the one-act opéra-comique Le Colin-Maillard, which Seveste produced on 28 April 1853,[6] became the secretary with a salary of 1,200 francs a year, an office Verne would leave in 1855.
Jules Seveste died of a massive stroke Friday, 30 June 1854, at ten o'clock at night and not from cholera as often indicated.