Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois

Auguste Anicet - Bourgeois ( born December 25, 1806 Paris, † January 18, 1871 in Pau) was a French playwright.

Anicet -Bourgeois enjoyed as the son of poor parents a very poor upbringing and entered 1821 as a clerk in a Parisian advocate a. After he had brought to the stage in this position in 1825, barely 19 years old, his first play, the melodrama " Gustave, ou le Néapolitain ", with success, he devoted himself entirely to Bühnenschriftstellerei.

He wrote popular plays in the coarser style, comedies, vaudeville, texts to comic operas, serious dramas and tragedies, in all about 200 works, but not without the aid of employees, under which excellent Ducange, Édouard Simon Lockroy, Ferdinand Vallon de Villeneuve and Louis Brisebarre deserve mention, while, conversely, several of the best pieces, which ' bear the name of Alexandre Dumas (eg Térésa, Angéle and Catherine Howard), Anicet - Bourgeois to the author.

In the last years of his life Anicet wrote almost exclusively Feerien ( Feerie (French, spr. Ferih ), a play in which decorations and magical transformations by machinery, the main form ) or rather the text to glossy made-up equipment and showpieces. He died on January 18, 1871 in Pau.

From his plays have been preserved to the last time on the repertoire:

• J'enlève ma femme, minuit passé, La joie de la maison, Les trois épiciers, Le maître d' école, La petite Fadette, La fiole de Cagliostro, Pascal et Chambord, cotillion III

Furthermore, the dramas:

• La pauvre fille, Le docteur noir, Atar - Gull, Madeleine, Les fugitifs, Gaspard Hauser, Les pirates de la savane, La fille des chiffonniers, Latude, ou trente - cinq ans de captivité and Doctor des enfants,

All of which more than 100 performances experienced.