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Paul Meurice was born on February 5, 1818, in Paris.
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Les Misérables: A Play in Two Acts
(Adapted from the novel by Victor Hugo, Les Misérables tel...)
Adapted from the novel by Victor Hugo, Les Misérables tells the story of Jean Valjean, an escaped minor fugitive who is mercilessly tracked through the decades by Police Inspector Javert. This is a careful, loving, and faithful adaptation of a classic work of fiction.
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Ascanio; Volume 1
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Ninety-Three: A Play in Four Acts
(The year is 1793. The newly-christened French Republic li...)
The year is 1793. The newly-christened French Republic lies in ruins, besieged on all sides. The Royalist Chouans have risen against the Revolution, sparking a brutal war with no quarter offered on either side. Victor Hugo personalizes the struggle with his panoply of memorable characaters, from a peasant woman to a Republic Army Sergeant, who become first-person witnesses to the horrors of modern genocide. A stunning drama!
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The Dream of a Summer Night: A Fantasy Play in Three Acts
(In this 1886 French adaptation of William Shakespeare's A...)
In this 1886 French adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Paul Meurice (1818-1905) focuses on the hilarious portion of the Bard's play in which the would-be actor, Bottom, is transformed into a ludicrous ass whom the fairy queen Titania is forced by enchantment to love. Meurice's version of Dream is a particularly smooth, timeless, and relatively modern rewrite of the original in prose. Meurice did more adaptations of Shakespeare than any of the other French Romantics, working with Alexandre Dumas, Père on a version of Hamlet, and with Auguste Vacquerie on Falstaff. First Translation into English.
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The Letters of Victor Hugo: From Exile, and After the Fall of the Empire, Volume 2
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The Two Dianas; or, Martin Guerre: A Play in Five Acts
(In mid-1500s France, Martin Guerre is determined to free ...)
In mid-1500s France, Martin Guerre is determined to free his father, the Comte de Montgomery, from an unjust prison sentence. Montgomery had dared to love the King's mistress, Diana de Poitiers; to prevent King Henry II from discovering her indiscretion, Poitiers had arranged to have Montgomery put away for life, under conditions where no one is allowed to speak to him--and no one knows his true identity. But Guerre discovers that his father still lives, and with his half-brother, the heir to the title, will do anything to free his long-lost parent--even take the city of Calais by force from its English occupiers. The King's daughter, Diana de France, supports Guerre, because she loves his half-brother. As the political war between the two Dianas reaches its climax, Martin is determined to force Henry into the open. But Henry has his own plans! Another first-rate historical drama by a master plotter!
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Francois Paul Meurice
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In 1848, Meurice became the editor of the Evenement, founded by Victor Hugo, and in 1869 he was one of the promoters of the Rappel, a journal on similar lines. He was the literary executor of Victor Hugo, and edited his works (1880-1885). In collaboration with Auguste Vacquerie and Theophile Gautier, he produced Falstaff (1842), a play in imitation of Shakespeare, and in 1843 an imitation of the Antigone; and with Alexandre Dumas a Hamlet (1847). He also wrote Benvenuto Cellini (1852), Schamyl (1854), Struensee (1893), and dramatic versions of Les Miserables (1878), Notre Dame de Paris (1876), Quatre-vingt-treize (1881).
Francois Paul Meurice died on December 11, 1905, in Paris.
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The Dream of a Summer Night: A Fantasy Play in Three Acts
(In this 1886 French adaptation of William Shakespeare's A...)
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Les Misérables: A Play in Two Acts
(Adapted from the novel by Victor Hugo, Les Misérables tel...)
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The Letters of Victor Hugo: From Exile, and After the Fall of the Empire, Volume 2
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
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Ascanio; Volume 1
( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)
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The Two Dianas; or, Martin Guerre: A Play in Five Acts
(In mid-1500s France, Martin Guerre is determined to free ...)
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Ninety-Three: A Play in Four Acts
(The year is 1793. The newly-christened French Republic li...)
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The Dream of a Summer Night: A Fantasy Play in Three Acts
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In 1843, Paul Meurice married Palmyre Granger, they had a daughter.
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France