Roger de Beauvoir (8 November 1806,
Paris
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– 27 August 1866) was the pen name of French
Romantic novelist and playwright Eugène Augustin Nicolas Roger.
Life
His wit, good-looks and adventurous lifestyle made him well known in Paris, where he was a friend of
Alexandre Dumas, père
Alexandre Dumas (, ; ; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (), 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père (where ''Suffix (name)#Generational titles, '' is French language, French for 'father', to distinguish him from ...
.
Of independent means, he wed actress and author
Léocadie Doze in 1847.
He was imprisoned for three months and fined 500 francs for a satirical poem, ''Mon Procs'', written in 1849.
Afflicted with
gout
Gout ( ) is a form of inflammatory arthritis characterized by recurrent attacks of a red, tender, hot and swollen joint, caused by deposition of monosodium urate monohydrate crystals. Pain typically comes on rapidly, reaching maximal intensit ...
and nearly destitute from his flamboyant lifestyle, he spent the last few years of his life unhappily confined to a chair, dying in Paris.
His best-known works included ''
Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges'' (1840), ''Les Oeufs de Paques'' (1856) and ''Le Pauvre Diable'' (reprinted 1871).
Bibliography
* ''La Cape et l'Épée''
* ''Histoires cavalières'' - La Lescombat: Le Moulin D'heilly. David Dick (1834). Les Eaux Des Pyrénées. Mademoiselle De Sens
* ''Duels et duellistes''
* ''Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges'' (novel and play)
* ''L'Écolier de Cluny''
* ''Les Soirs au Lido''
* ''Les Oeufs de Paques''
* ''Le Café Procope''
* ''L'Auberge des Trois Pins''
* ''Les Soupeurs de mon temps''
* ''La Lescombat''
* ''Les Aventurieres''
* ''Le Pauvre Diable''
* ''Colombes et couleuvres'', etc.
References
;Attribution
External links
Works by Roger de Babylon at the Bibliothèque nationale*
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1806 births
1866 deaths
Writers from Paris
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
19th-century French novelists
French male novelists
19th-century French male writers
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