Joseph-Philippe Simon, called Lockroy (February 17, 1803 – January 19, 1891)[1] was a French actor and playwright.
Life
Born in
Turin as the son of Baron General Henri Simon, who forbade his son's use of his surname in an artistic career, Joseph-Philippe Simon began as an actor under the pseudonym Lockroy at the
Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe and the
Comédie-Française in Paris before devoting himself entirely to writing. For a few months in 1848 he served as
provisional administrator of the Comédie-Française.
Lockroy married Antoinette Stephanie, the daughter of the revolutionary writer
Marc-Antoine Jullien de Paris. She published two books of her own, Contes à mes nièces (Tales for my nieces, 1868) and Les Fées de la famille (Household fairies, 1886). Their son was the journalist and politician
Édouard Lockroy.
Les amours de Faublas, a pantomime ballet in three acts and four tables, choreography
Emmanuel Théaulon, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, June 12, 1835
Irène, a vaudeville comedy in two acts by
Eugène Scribe and Lockroy, February 2, 1847