Charles Ménétrier

Charles Ménétrier (born 1804 at Vimont (Calvados) - 19 May 1888) was a French theater critic as well as a playwright.

A journalist working for La Tribune, L'Entr'acte, Le Magasin pittoresque and the Revue et Gazette des Théâtres, and a friend of Camille Corot, he wrote under the pen name Charles Listener. His plays were presented on the stage of the Gymnase-Enfantin.

Works

 * 1833 : Caliban, par deux ermites de Ménilmontant rentrés dans le monde, with Édouard Pouyat
 * 1836 : Le cœur d'une mère, one-act comédie en vaudeville, with Xavier Veyrat
 * 1837 : Le Nabab, ou la Sœur des anges, one-act comedy, mingled with songs
 * 1840 : Arthur de Bretagne, épisode de l'histoire d'Angleterre (1202), in 1 act, mingled with songs
 * 1841 : Un bal d'enfants, one-act comédie en vaudeville
 * 1842 : Les Enfants d'Armagnac, épisode de l'histoire de Paris, 1418, in 1 act mingled with songs
 * 1876 : Galerie historique de la Comédie Française pour servir de complément à la Troupe de Talma, with Edmond-Denis De Manne