Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois

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Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, 1880

Auguste Anicet, later Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois (25 December 1806[1] – 12 January 1871)[2] was a French dramatist. He was born in Paris.

The first play to bear his name is L'Ami et le mari, ou le Nouvel Amphitryon, a vaudeville piece in one act. It was produced in 1825, when the author was still in his teens.

Over the course of his career he was credited with writing nearly 200 plays, as many as ten a year. However the nature of theatrical collaboration at this time was such that the extent of his contribution to any given play is debatable. In fact it is known that he assisted

Paul Féval. One of his plays was adapted for the English stage as The Black Doctor (1846), a vehicle for Ira Aldridge.[3]

Very little is known of his life beyond a connection to the military. Married, with one daughter, he was named Chevalier de la

Père-Lachaise
.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Facsimile of the document
  2. ^ Alexandre Dumas fils. Entr'actes. Volume 2, page 351. Lévy, 1878.
  3. ^ Howard L. Malchow. Gothic Images of Race in 19th-century Britain. Stanford University Press, 1996. Page 173.

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