Gabriel de Lurieu

Gabriel de Lurieu, real name Gabriel-Zéphirin Gonyn de Lurieu, (Paris, 28 October 1799 (7 brumaire year VIII) – Paris 5 February 1889 ) was a French author and playwright.

He signed with Armand d'Artois and Francis de Lurieu under the collective pseudonym « Sapajou », and under « J. Gabriel », « Jules », « Gabriel Lurieu » and « Monsieur Sapajou ». His brother Jules-Joseph-Gabriel Gonyn de Lurieu (1792–1869), with whom he is sometimes mistaken, was also a playwright.

The son of a captain of Dragons from a family of the minor nobility (squire) of the former Forez province, parallel to its inspector general career in the watch of Benevolent Institutions of the City of Paris, he started writing theatre plays. He authored numerous plays and libretti for opéras comiques, most of them written in collaboration, in particular with Théophile Marion Dumersan, Francis baron d'Allarde, Armand d'Artois, Nicolas Brazier, Eugène Scribe, Bernard Lopez, Élie Sauvage, Alexis Wafflard, Théodore-Ferdinand Vallou de Villeneuve, Auguste-Michel Benoît Gaudichot Masson, Adolphe Charles Adam and Emmanuel Théaulon.

In 1823, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, he married his cousin Louise-Charlotte Gonyn de Lurieu, daughter of a former officer became a magistrate.

When he died, the 7 February 1889 issue of le Figaro wrote:

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