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Auguste Anicet, later Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois (25 December 1806
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Auguste Anicet, later Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois (25 December 1806/ref> – 12 January 1871) 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
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas (born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas , was a French novelist and playwright.
His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the mos ...
in the writing of several plays (''Térésa, Angèle, Le Mari de la Veuve, La Vénitienne''), sometimes without acknowledgement. He is the subject of an anecdote in Dumas's "''Comment je devins auteur dramatique''" ("How I became a Dramatist"), in an extract published in 1833 in '' Revue des Deux Mondes'' about a proposal to stage a play featuring Caligula
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's horse. Other writers with whom he worked were Philippe Dumanoir, Julien de Mallian, Victor Ducange, Francis Cornu, Lockroy, Édouard Brisebarre, Michel Masson, Ernest Blum and Paul Féval. One of his plays was adapted for the English stage as ''The Black Doctor'' (1846), a vehicle for Ira Aldridge
Ira Frederick Aldridge (July 24, 1807 – August 7, 1867) was an American-born British actor, playwright, and theatre manager, known for his portrayal of William Shakespeare, Shakespearean characters. James Hewlett (actor), James Hewlett and Ald ...
.Howard L. Malchow. ''Gothic Images of Race in 19th-century Britain.'' Stanford University Press, 1996. Page 173.
Very little is known of his life beyond a connection to the military. Married, with one daughter, he was named Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ...
on 10 December 1849. He died on 12 January 1871 at Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Pau (; ; ) is a Communes of France, commune overlooking the Pyrenees, the prefecture of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques Departments of France, department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Regions of France, region of Southwestern France.
The city is locat ...
(a fortnight before the end of the Siege of Paris) and was buried in division 4 of Père-Lachaise.
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:AnicetBourgeois, Auguste 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights Writers from Paris Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery Knights of the Legion of Honour 19th-century French male writers 1806 births 1871 deaths