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DUCANGE, VICTOR HENRI JOSEPH BRAHAIN (1783-1833) , French novelist and dramatist, was born on the 24th of November 1783 at the Hague, where his father was secretary to the French embassy
Victor Ducange became one of the favourite authors of the liberal party, and owed some part
journal Le Diable rose, ou le petit courrier de Lucifer (1822); for Valentine (1821), in which the royalist excesses in the south
refuge
Ducange wrote numerous plays and melodramas, among which the most successful were Marco Loricot, ou le petit Chouan de 183o (1836), and Trente ans, ou la vie d'un joueur (1827), in which Frederick Lemaitre found one of his best parts. Many of his books were prohibited, ostensibly for their coarseness, but perhaps rather for their political tendencies. He died in Paris on the 15th of October 1833.End of Article: DUCANGE, VICTOR HENRI JOSEPH BRAHAIN (1783-1833) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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