Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy

Victor- Joseph Étienne de Jouy (* October 19, 1764 in Versailles, † September 4, 1846 in Saint- Germain -en- Laye ) was a French soldier, politician, writer and librettist.

De Jouy first took the military career, then traveled to South America and later fought in the East Indies under Tippoo Sahib.

Back in the homeland, he made the first revolution wars, fled, accused of treason and sentenced to death in 1794 in Switzerland, returned after the fall of Maximilien de Robespierre returned to France, was in 1797 the military state and devoted himself to literature.

First zealous partisan of the Restoration, he soon entered into the Liberal Party, was during the July Revolution mayor of Paris, then librarian of the Louvre.

Since 1815 he was a member of the Académie française. Known are his opera texts:

• La vestal (1807 ) and Fernand Cortez (1809 ), both of Gaspare Spontini composed
• Les Amazones (1812 ), by Etienne- Nicolas Mehul
• Les Abencerrages (1813 ), by Luigi Cherubini
• Guillaume Tell ( 1829), composed by Gioachino Rossini

His tragedy Sylla (1824 ) had great success, less his other comedies, vaudeville, tragedies, etc., some of which were not listed.

Of his prose writings is the most famous L' hermite de la Chaussée d' Antin, etc. (Paris 1812-1814, 5 vols ), a description of French manners from the early 19th century, while the other, under the title L ' hermite etc. published genre accounts at many inaccuracies and lack of styles suffer.

His oeuvre complètes he published himself (Paris 1823-1828, 27 vols ). He has also worked on many magazines and on the biography of the nouvelle contemporains.