Paul Meurice

Paul Meurice ( born February 5, 1818 in Paris, † December 11, 1905 ibid ) was a French writer.

Meurice was introduced around 1836 by Auguste his school friend Vacquerie because in a circle around Victor Hugo, and was soon a regular guest at his house. In 1848 he became chief editor of the journal founded by Hugo L' Événement. During the coup d'etat in 1851, he was arrested as well as Hugo. After his release, he represented the interests of Hugo, who was in exile in France. In 1869 he founded with Auguste Vacquerie and Hugo's sons Charles and François -Victor Hugo the journal Le Rappel.

Hugo made ​​him his executor, and in this capacity he oversaw the National fünfundvierzigbändige Édition of the complete works of Hugo. At its 100th birthday in 1902, he founded in Hugo's house on the Place des Vosges, the Musée Victor Hugo.

At the beginning of his literary career, he wrote with Vacquerie and Théophile Gautier in 1842, the piece Falstaff ( by William Shakespeare). 1844 was followed, in collaboration with Vacquerie, Antigone. An adaptation of Hamlet, which he wrote with Alexandre Dumas, this released under his own name. In collaboration with George Sand Le Drac was born.

After a series of independent works Meurice wrote at the end of the 1870s, three theater adaptations of novels Hugo's Les Miserables (1878), Notre Dame de Paris ( 1876) and Quatre- vingt- treize (1881 ). In addition Meurice published several novels.

Works

  • Falstaff, 1842
  • Antigone, 1844
  • Hamlet, 1847
  • Benvenuto Cellini, 1852
  • Schamyl, 1854
  • Fanfan la Tulipe, 1858
  • Le Maître d' école, 1858
  • François- les -bas - bleus, 1863
  • Notre Dame de Paris, 1876
  • Les Miserables, 1878
  • Quatre- vingt- treize, 1881
  • Struensee, 1893
  • Le Drac
  • Author
  • Drama
  • Publisher
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1818
  • Died in 1905
  • Man
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