MICHEL DELAPORTE
\mˈɪt͡ʃə͡l dɪlˈapɔːt], \mˈɪtʃəl dɪlˈapɔːt], \m_ˈɪ_tʃ_əl d_ɪ_l_ˈa_p_ɔː_t]\
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A French playwright (1806-72); born in Paris. He wrote a long series of vaudevilles, many of them in collaboration with others. Of pieces of his own composition may be named "The Housewife" (1851), "Toinette and her Carbineer" (1856), as the most successful. In association with Varin he wrote: "A Hercules and a Pretty Woman" (1861); "Ah, 'Tis Pleasant to Love"; "The Gillyflower Woman" (1869).
By Charles Dudley Warner
