Jacques-Antoine de Révéroni Saint-Cyr
Jacques-Antoine Révéroni, baron de Saint-Cyr (5 May 1767, Lyon – 19 March 1829, Paris) was a French soldier and man of letters. Révéroni de Saint-Cyr is remembered mostly for his novel, Pauliska, ou La Perversité moderne, mémoires récents d'une Polonaise, (1798), first published by bibliophile Jacob in 1848, after the author's manuscript. Theatre 1793: Le Club de sans-souci, ou les Deux Pupilles, comedy in one act and free verse, mingled with vaudevilles, in-8°. 1795: Helena, ou les Miquelets, opera in 2 acts, Paris, in-8°. 1795: Élisa, ou le Voyage au mont Saint-Bernard, opera in two acts, in-8°. 1797: L’Hospice de village, opéra, en 2 acts. 1800: Le Délire, ou les Suites d’une erreur, one-act opéra comique, in-8°). La Rencontre aux bains, one-act comédie en vaudeville. 1804: Sophie Pierrefeu, ou le Désastre de Messine, historical fact in 3 acts, mingled with ariettes, in-8° (unplayed). 1805: Le Vaisseau amiral, ou Forbin et Delville, one-act opera, in-8°. 1807: Lina ou le Mystère, drame lyrique in three acts and in prose, music by Nicolas Dalayrac, created at the Opéra-Comique (théâtre Feydeau), 8 October, in-8°. 1810: Cagliostro, ou les Illuminés, opéra comique in 3 acts, in-8°. 1811: Les Ménestrels, ou la Tour d’Amboise, opéra in 3 acts, in-8°. 1816: Christine, reine de Suède, tragedy in 3 acts, in-8° (unplayed). 1816: Déjanire, ou la Mort d’Hercule, grand opéra in one act, in-8° (unplayed). 1816: Pline, ou l’Héroïsme des arts et de l’amitié, opera in one act, in-8° (unplayed). 1817: Mademoiselle de Lespinasse, comedy in one acta and in verse, in-8° (unplayed). 1817: Les Partis, ou le Cornérage universel, comedy in 3 acts and in verse, in-8° (unplayed). 1817: Le Siège de Rhodes, opera in 3 acts, in-8° (unplayed). 1817: Le Sybarite, comedy in 3 acts and in verse, in-8° (unplayed). 1818: La Comtesse de la Marck, historical comedy in trois acts, (with Armand d'Artois). 1827: Vauban à Charleroi, historical comedy in 3 acts and in verse, in-8° (with Vial) (Many of these pieces were not presented; others were played in theaters Louvois, Favart, Montansier, Feydeau, de la Cité et de l’Odéon. In 1828, Révéroni de Saint-Cyr composed an opéra comique entitled les Grenouilles, imitated from Aristophanes, and he had chosen midnight to read it to the Feydeau theater committee. Having found no one, he got angry and knocked at the door of some actors. It was the beginning of an insanity which only got worse.) Novels 1797: Sabina d’Herfeld, ou les Dangers de l’imagination, Paris, 2 vol. in-12 ; 4th edition, 1814, 2 vol. in-12. 1798: Pauliska, ou La Perversité moderne, mémoires récents d’une Polonaise, 2 vol. in-12. 1799: Nos Folies, ou Mémoires d’un Musulman connu à Paris, 2 vol. in-12. 1813: La Princesse de Nevers, ou Mémoires du sire de la Touraille, 2 vol. in-12 ; 2nd edit. 1823, 2 vol. in-12. 1814: L’Officier russe à Paris, ou Aventures et réflexions critiques du comte de ***, 2 vol. in-12. 1818: Le Torrent des passions, ou les Dangers de la galanterie, 2 vol. in-12. 1822: Historiettes