Alexandre Dechet
Jenneval, actually Hyppolyte -Louis -Alexandre Dechet (also Dechez ) ( born January 23, 1803 in Lyon, † October 18, 1830 in Lier ) was a French actor and poet who as the author of the Belgian national anthem, the Belgian national anthem, was known.
Life
Dechet studied at the Collège Henri IV in Paris. There he made the acquaintance of a banker's son, of whom he found a job at a bank. After only two years he gave up the position to pursue his passion for the theater life. With an initial modest success, he began an acting career for him, which is now called Jenneval (presumably after the eponymous drama by Louis- Sébastien Mercier ) to Ajaccio (1824 ), Marseille ( 1825) and to the Théâtre de l' Odéon in Paris ( 1825) led.
In 1827 he went for about a year to Lille, in 1828 he succeeded with his appearance at the Brussels Théâtre de la Monnaie in the piece Comédiens of Casimir Delavigne a breakthrough. He was so well known that the Comédie française Paris became aware of him and offered him a role. As in Paris in 1830, however, the July Revolution broke out and, consequently, the theater closed its doors, Jenneval returned to his adopted home of Belgium. On August 27, two days after the Brussels performance of the opera La Muette de Portici, which should be the auslöserin the Belgian Revolution, he joined the Freikorps his compatriot Charles Niellon that should restore public order in Brussels. Swept along by the general uproar, he wrote the first text versions of the later Belgian national anthem, which was later set to music by François Van Campenhout.
A few weeks later he stormed with 800 Belgian revolutionaries the town of Lier, near Antwerp to sell the royal troops, who had entrenched themselves there. As this note, however, that they were in the majority ( 8,000 men ), they went over to the counter- attack in which Jenneval lost his life.