His dramatic career extended from 1805 until at least 1838, ending with a parody of Victor Hugo's Ruy Blas, but almost all details of de Redon's personal life are obscure.
His initial successes as a dramatist came in the brief period of Napoleon's Consulate and then Empire, before the Emperor clamped down on plays, from 1807 severely restricting the number of licensed Parisian theatres.
After the fall of Napoleon in 1814 and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, de Redon appears to have become embroiled in the subsequent controversy surrounding the restitution of property and financial compensation to those émigrés who had suffered loss or expropriation under the Revolution - a controversy which in part contributed to the fall in 1830 of Louis XVIII.
Redon's sycophantic verses attached as a preface to one volume of the contemporary Annales de la littérature et des arts [3] suggest that he was still, or had returned to being, a fervent supporter of the Bourbons.
with collaborators, and date and location of first performance, as given in subsequent publication Many of the lesser Parisian theatres underwent various changes of name during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods [4] even if the physical building remained constant.