Roger de Beauvoir
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8 November 1806 Paris |
| Died | 27 August 1866 (aged 59) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | writer |
| Spouse(s) | Léocadie Doze |
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Roger de Beauvoir (8 November 1806, Paris – 27 August 1866) was the pen name of French Romantic novelist and playwright Eugène Auguste Roger de Bully.
Life
His wit, good-looks and adventurous lifestyle made him well known in Paris, where he was a friend of Alexandre Dumas, père. Of independent means, he wed actress and author Léocadie Doze in 1847. He was imprisoned for three months and fined 500 francs for a satirical poem, Mon Procs, written in 1849. Afflicted with gout and nearly destitute from his flamboyant lifestyle, he spent the last few years of his life unhappily confined to a chair, dying in Paris. [1]
His best-known works included Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1840), Les Oeufs de Paques (1856) and Le Pauvre Diable (reprinted 1871).
Bibliography
- La Cape et l'Épée
- Histoires cavalières
- Duels et duellistes
- Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (novel and play)
- L'Écolier de Cluny
- Les Soirs au Lido
- Les Oeufs de Paques
- Le Café Procope
- L'Auberge des Trois Pins
- Les Soupeurs de mon temps
- La Lescombat
- Les Aventurieres
- Le Pauvre Diable
- Colombes et couleuvres, etc.
References
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Beauvoir, Roger de". Encyclopædia Britannica 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links
- Works by Roger de Babylon at the Bibliothèque nationale
- Works by Roger de Beauvoir at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Roger de Beauvoir at Internet Archive
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