Joseph Aude was a familiar of Necker and Buffon whose biography he wrote as well as a comédie en vaudeville about his marriage, presented at the Société littéraire et scientifique d'Apt. Aude Joseph is considered an important author of the traveling theater of the early nineteenth, thanks to his Cadet Rousselle.
Biography
He made his literary debut in 1776, with Fête des Muses, an à-proposin verse played at the Théâtre de Versailles before the king and the court. He met Buffon at the Jardin du Roi, where chevalier de Mouchy, of the House of Noailles, a novelist and correspondent of Voltaire, had led him. Having become familiar with him in Paris, he was his guest at Montbard, but was not, contrary to popular belief, his personal secretary. He stroke a friendship with the marquis Domenico Caracciolo, ambassador of the Kingdom of Naples in France. In 1781, he was appointed viceroy of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and took Aude with him. After he was appointed foreign minister in Naples, 1786, Aude returned to France and joined Buffon in Montbard. Chevalier Aude was honored with a letter from Frederick the Great. He was tied with Dorvigny, creator of the character , and with Brunet, his favorite actor and had the honor of being played by Talma in 1790. He was said to be a dissipator, prodigal and drunkard because at the end of his life, he assiduously attended cabarets.
Diderot, ou le Voyage à Versailles : comédie en 1 acte, en prose
Arlequin sourd-muet, ou Cassandre opérateur : arlequinade en vaudeville
Le Message aux Champs-Élysées, ou la Fête des arts et de l'amitié : pièce épisodique en 1 acte en vers
Léon de Norveld, ou le Prisonnier de Stockholm : pièce historique en 3 actes et à spectacle
La Veille d'une grande fête : hommage en 1 acte et en vers, mêlés de couplets
Les Deux colons : trait anecdotique en 1 acte mêlé de couplets
Le Café d'une petite ville : comédie en 1 acte et en vers, à l'occasion de la paix
Le Nouveau Ricco, ou la Malle perdue : comédie en 2 actes
Le Béverley d'Angoulême : comédie en 1 acte
La Nuit d'un joueur, ou le Petit Béverley : Comédie en 1 acte
Lettre d'un vieillard de Ferney à l'Académie française : éloge de Voltaire
La Critique de Madame Angot au sérail : pièce en 1 acte et en vers
Mercure à Paris : arlequinade en 1 acte
Corneille au Capitole : scènes héroïques à l'occasion du rétablissement de Sa Majesté Marie-Louise, Impératrice et Reine, après la naissance du Roi de Rome
Canardin, ou les amours du quai de la volaille : comédie du gros genre, en deux actes, en prose, mêlée de chants et de danses, avec un divertissement.
Cadet-Roussel, ou le Café des aveugles : pièce en 2 actes qui n'en font qu'un, en vers et en prose. The play premiered at the Théâtre de la Cité on 12 February 1793.
L'École tragique, ou Cadet-Roussel maître de déclamation : comédie ou non, en 1 acte
Cadet-Roussel au jardin turc : facétie en 1 acte
Cadet-Roussel aux Champs-Élysées, ou la Colère d'Agamemnon : vaudeville en 1 acte
He is however not the only author to have used "Cadet Roussel" as a character. Indeed, the CESAR database reports many Cadet Roussel, from the Cadet Roussel garçon d'auberge, by Prévost to the École tragique ou Cadet Roussel maître de déclamation, by Aude for the 18th century, then others during the 19th century such as Victor Hugo who, in his Ninety-Three, featured Danton ridiculing Robespierre who had just monopolized the floor for two hours at the National Convention:
