Delrieu, Etienne-Joseph-Bernard

Delrieu, Etienne-Joseph-Bernard (1761, Rodez; 4 November 1836, Paris), dramatist, lived in Versailles until 1793, when he moved to Paris to serve the new government as head of the customs office in the French capital. He retained this position during the Empire, when he secured his reputation as a man of letters by writing poetry celebrating the birth of the king of Rome in 1811. Delrieu was primarily a playwright, however, and his first work for the stage was Arsinoüs , a tragedy in three acts…