Roger de Beauvoir

Roger de Beauvoir
Born	Eugène Augustin Nicolas Roger (1806-11-08)8 November 1806 Paris
Died	27 August 1866(1866-08-27) (aged 59)
Nationality	French
Occupation	writer
Spouse	Léocadie Doze
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Roger de Beauvoir (8 November 1806, Paris – 27 August 1866) was the pen name of French Romantic novelist and playwright Eugène Augustin Nicolas Roger.

Life

His wit, good-looks and adventurous lifestyle made him well known in Paris, where he was a friend of Alexandre Dumas, père. Of independent means, he wed actress and author Léocadie Doze in 1847. He was imprisoned for three months and fined 500 francs for a satirical poem, Mon Procs, written in 1849. Afflicted with gout and nearly destitute from his flamboyant lifestyle, he spent the last few years of his life unhappily confined to a chair, dying in Paris.

His best-known works included Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1840), Les Oeufs de Paques (1856) and Le Pauvre Diable (reprinted 1871).

Bibliography

• La Cape et l'Épée
• Histoires cavalières - La Lescombat: Le Moulin D'heilly. David Dick (1834). Les Eaux Des Pyrénées. Mademoiselle De Sens
• Duels et duellistes
• Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (novel and play)
• L'Écolier de Cluny
• Les Soirs au Lido
• Les Oeufs de Paques
• Le Café Procope
• L'Auberge des Trois Pins
• Les Soupeurs de mon temps
• La Lescombat
• Les Aventurieres
• Le Pauvre Diable
• Colombes et couleuvres, etc.

References

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Beauvoir, Roger de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

External links

• Works by Roger de Babylon at the Bibliothèque nationale
• Works by Roger de Beauvoir at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Roger de Beauvoir at the Internet Archive