Cimetière du Père-Lachaise (continued): #3: Anicet-Bourgeois

Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois (1806–1871) was a a playwright whose first play was the vaudeville L'Ami et le mari, ou le Nouvel Amphitryon (1825), at the age of nineteen. He contributed to about two hundred plays, notably with Alexandre Dumas père in Térésa, Angèle, Le Mari de la Veuve and La Vénitienne. He favoured vaudeville and historical drama.