Jean-Baptiste Pellissier


Jean-Baptiste Pellissier, full name Pierre Jean-Baptiste Pellissier de Labatut, was a 19th-century French playwright and journalist.

Biography

The son of a lawyer at the parliament of Bordeaux, an intendant of the marquis de Saint-Alvère at Montpezat-de-Quercy, he became chief editor of the Mémorial universel and an editor for the Revue encyclopédique. A secretary in the administration of the Opéra-Comique, his plays, sometimes published under the pseudonym Laqueyrie, were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century including the Théâtre de la Gaîté, the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, and the Théâtre de l'Odéon.
In the Louvre there is a plaster medallion of Pellissier by Etienne Hippolyte Maindron, dated 1853.

Works