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MEURICE, FRANCOIS PAUL (1818-1905)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 315 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MEURICE, See also:FRANCOIS See also:PAUL (1818-1905) , See also:French dramatist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 7th of See also:February 1818. In 1848 he became the editor of the Evenement, founded by See also:Victor See also:Hugo, and in 1869 he was one of the promoters of the Rappel, a See also:journal on similar lines. He was the See also:literary executor of Victor Hugo, and edited his See also:works (1880-1885). In collaboration with Auguste See also:Vacquerie and See also:Theophile See also:Gautier, he produced Falstaff (1842), a See also:play in See also:imitation of See also:Shakespeare, and in 1843 an imitation of the See also:Antigone; and with See also:Alexandre See also:Dumas a See also:Hamlet (1847). He also wrote Benvenuto See also:Cellini (1852), Schamyl (1854), See also:Struensee (1893), and dramatic versions of See also:Les Miserables (1878), Notre See also:Dame de Paris (1876), Quatre-vingt-treize (1881). He died on the 12th of See also:December 1905.

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