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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 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 in the writing of 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 Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (), 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père (where '' '' is French for 'father', to distinguish him from his son Alexandre Dumas fils), was a French writer. ...
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"), published in 1833 in '' Revue des Deux Mondes''. Other writers with whom he worked were Philippe Dumanoir, Julien de Mallian
Julien de Mallian (12 Novembre 1805 – March 1851) was a 19th-century French playwright.
He briefly studied law before turning to dramatic composition. His plays often signed only with his first name, were presented on the greatest Parisian sta ...
, Victor Ducange, Francis Cornu, Lockroy
Joseph-Philippe Simon, called Lockroy (February 17, 1803 – January 19, 1891)Death notice
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Édouard Brisebarre, Michel Masson and
Paul Féval
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. 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 Shakespearean characters. James Hewlett and Aldridge are regarded as the first Black Ameri ...
.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
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on 10 December 1849. He died on 12 January 1871 at Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Pau (, ) is a commune overlooking the Pyrenees, and prefecture of the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
The city is located in the heart of the former sovereign principality of Béarn, of which it ...
(a fortnight before the end of the Siege of Paris) and was buried in division 4 of Père-Lachaise.
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