Ancelot
Ancelot is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Jacques-François Ancelot (1794–1854), French dramatist and litterateur *Virginie Ancelot (1792–1875), French painter, writer, and playwright {{Short pages monitor ...
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Jacques-François Ancelot
Jacques-Arsène-Polycarpe-François Ancelot (9 January 1794 – 7 September 1854) was a French dramatist and litterateur. Biography Born in Le Havre, Ancelot became a clerk in the admiralty, and retained his position until the July Revolution, Revolution of 1830. In 1816 his play ''Warwick'' was accepted by the Théâtre Français, but never produced, and three years later a five-act tragedy, ''Louis IX'', was staged. Three editions of the play were speedily exhausted; it had a run of fifty representations, and brought him a pension of 2000 francs from Louis XVIII of France, Louis XVIII. His next work, ''Le Maire du palais'', was played in 1825 with less success; but for it he received the cross of the Légion d'honneur. In 1824 he produced ''Fiesque'', a clever adaptation of Friedrich Schiller, Schiller's ''Fiesco (novel), Fiesco''. In 1828 appeared ''Olga, ou l'orpheline russe'', the plot of which had been inspired by a voyage he made to Russia in 1826. About the same per ...
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