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DUCANGE, See also:VICTOR See also:HENRI See also:JOSEPH BRAHAIN (1783-1833) , See also:French novelist and dramatist, was See also:born on the 24th of See also:November 1783 at the See also:Hague, where his See also:father was secretary to the French See also:embassy. Dismissed from the See also:civil service at the Restoration, Victor Ducange became one of the favourite authors of the liberal party, and owed some See also:part of his popularity to the fact that he was fined and imprisoned more than once for his outspokenness. He was six months in See also:prison for an See also:article in his See also:journal Le Diable See also:rose, ou le See also:petit courrier de See also:Lucifer (1822); for See also:Valentine (1821), in which the royalist excesses in the See also:south of See also:France were pilloried, he was again imprisoned; and after the publication of Helene ou l'amour et la guerre (1823), he took See also:refuge for some See also:time in See also:Belgium. 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 See also:vie d'un joueur (1827), in which See also:Frederick See also:Lemaitre found one of his best parts. Many of his books were prohibited, ostensibly for their coarseness, but perhaps rather for their See also:political tendencies. He died in See also:Paris on the 15th of See also:October 1833.

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