Victor Henri Joseph Brahain Ducange

Victor Henri Joseph Brahain Ducange (* November 24, 1783 in The Hague, † October 15th 1833 in Paris) was a French poet and novelist.

Ducange came early to Paris, where he obtained a position in the Department of Commerce, it lost after the Restoration, and then turned after a short stay in England, the stage and novel writing to that granted him a modest income, but the way the result of his liberal, especially religious fanaticism sharply opposed views of passing on the part of the government drew upon many temptations. He died on 15 October 1833.

Among his numerous plays in the genre of melodrama is Trente ans, ou la vie d'un joueur (1827 ), the most famous and most effective. Of the other are:

  • Le prince de Norvège (1818 ); the melodrama
  • Calas (1819 );
  • Le Colonel et le soldat (1820 );
  • Élodie (1822 );
  • Therese (1822 );
  • Les diamants (1824 );
  • MacDowell (1826 );
  • Il y a seize ans ( 1831);
  • La vendetta (1831 ), etc.

In all things be Ducanges preference is for the terrible shudder Full; his style is often rough and hard and strips to the Bizarre. Even his novels, although now rarely read, had in their time as a result of the dramatic action exciting and lively depiction great success:

  • Agathe (1819, 2 vols );
  • Valentine ou le pasteur d' Uzès (1821, 3 vols );
  • Léonide, ou la vieille de Suresnes (1823, 5 vols );
  • Le médecin confesseur (1825, 6 vols );
  • La Luthérienne (1825, 6 vols );
  • Les trois filles de la veuve (1826, 6 vols );
  • Ludovica (1830, 6 vols );
  • Joasine, ou la fille du prêtre (1835, 5 vols ).
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