Henri-François Dumolard

Henri-François Élisabeth Étienne Dumolard-Orcel, better known as Henri-François Dumolard (2 October 1771 – 21 December 1845) was an early 19th-century French playwright.

The son of a judge, he lost his father aged fifteen and in order to make a living, to go to school and to help his mother, accepted a position of copyist. He became secretary general of the police administration (1789-1790) and a lawyer (1796). A member of the "Société académique des sciences" and a controller of the Public Treasury (1796-1813), his plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time, including the Théâtre du Vaudeville, the Théâtre des Variétés, and the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin.