Élie Sauvage, full name Élie François Victor Sauvage (13 May 1814 – 30 December 1871), was a 19th-century French playwright and novelist. He was the son of Angélique-Renée Rotureau and René Sauvage, a trader in

Mayenne Mayenne ( ) is a landlocked department in northwest France named after the river Mayenne. Mayenne is part of the administrative region of Pays de la Loire and is surrounded by the departments of Manche, Orne, Sarthe, Maine-et-Loire, and Il ...

. He collaborated to the newspaper ''La Mayenne'' and began his literary career with a volume of verse. He then turned to the theater and produced alone or in collaboration, a dozen plays. A member of the

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, towards the end of his life he published two novels, ''Mirette'', a spiritist one, and ''La Petite Bohémienne'' which was translated into English as ''The Little Gipsy''.

Publications

;Theatre *1833: ''Un matelot'', vaudeville in 1 act, with

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, Paris,

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, 6 March *1836: ''Julien l'évangéliste'', drama in 5 acts and in verse *1845: ''Jeanne d'Arc en prison'', monologue in 1 act and in verse, with René Périn, Théâtre du Luxembourg *1844: ''Le Roi Lear'', drama in 4 acts and in verse, imites from Shakspeare, with Frédéric Duhomme, Paris, Théâtre de l'Odéon, 10 November *1845: ''La Tour de Ferrare'', drama in 5 acts and 6 tableaux, with

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and Charles Lafont, Paris, Théâtre de la Gaîté, 30 April *1846: ''Le Comte Julien, ou le Château maudit'', drama in 4 acts, with Frédéric Duhomme, Paris, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 31 January *1846: ''La Vestale'', tragedy in 5 acts, in verse, with Frédéric Duhomme, Paris, Théâtre-Français, 30 May *1851: ''Boudjali'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Frédéric Duhomme and René Chevalier, Paris,

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, 4 November *1852: ''Un mari brûlé'', comedy in 1 act mingled with song, with Eugène Nus, Paris, Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, 8 September *1854: ''La Servante du roi'', drama in 5 acts and in verse, with Frédéric Duhomme, Paris, Théâtre de l'Odéon, 24 April *1856: ''Le Nord et le Midi'', comedy in 1 act, in

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, Paris, Théâtre de l'Odéon, 7 December *1861: ''Les Mores de Grenade'', drama in 3 acts and in verse, précédé d'un prologue *1864: ''Les Coiffeurs'', comédie-vaudeville in 3 acts, Paris,

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, 7 May ;Novels *1867: ''Mirette'', spirit novel *1868: ''La Petite Bohémienne'' ;Poetry *1835: ''Les Rayons du matin'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Sauvage, Elie 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French novelists 1814 births People from Mayenne 1871 deaths