Career
He was six months in prison for an article in his journal Le Diable rose, ou le petit courrier de Lucifer (1822). Foreign Valentine (1821), in which the royalist excesses in the south of France were pilloried, he was again imprisoned. And after the publication of Hélène ou l"amour et la guerre (1823), he took refuge for some time in Belgium.
Ducange wrote numerous plays and melodramas, among which the most successful were Marco Loricot, ou le petit Chouan de 1830 (1836), and Trente ans, ou la vie d"un joueur (1827), in which Frédérick Lemaître found one of his best parts.
Many of his books were prohibited, ostensibly for their coarseness, but perhaps rather for their political tendencies. He died in Paris.