title: Adolphe Grognier
text: # Adolphe Grognier
  
  Adolphe Grognier, known under the pseudonym Jean-Baptiste Quélus, (14 January 1813 – 14 December 1883) was a French actor and singer. The son of lawyer Louis-Furcy Grognier [fr] (1777-1832), and Hélène Caylus, he was appointed twice as director of La Monnaie of Brussels, in 1854 and 1856.
  
  ## Life
  
  Born in Aurillac, Grognier was first a sailor, then actor. In 1843 he met the young Rachel in Lyon with whom he fell in love and whose acting troupe he joined for a while.
  
  He was then teacher of singing at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles where one of his last pupils was his compatriot Emma Calvé.
  
  Grognier died in Brussels at age 70.
  
  ## Award
  
  Chevalier of the Ordre de Léopold.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Études dramatiques et oratoires, conseils aux comédiens et aux chanteurs, Brussels, éditions De Dietrie-Thomson, 1858
  
  ## Sources
  
  * Souvenir du 22 mai 1881 - Fête organisée en faveur de M. Grognier-Quélus, professeur de déclamation au conservatoire de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, éditions Félix Calewaert-père, 1881
  * Journal de Hélène Delpech de Frayssinet, née Grognier, 1897, AD15.
  