biography
pronunciation:
[duhlaveen]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1793–1843)
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| biography:
| Poet and playwright, born in Le Havre, NW France. The publication of Messéniennes (1818–43) unleashed patriotic enthusiasm. He wrote lighter comedies, such as La Popularité (1838), where he developed fashionable themes, but it was his historical dramas which brought enormous success. Les Enfants d'Edouard (1833) or Les Vêpres Siciliennes inspired an operatic commission by Verdi for the Grande Exposition (Great Exhibition) of 1855. |
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