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A great French dramatist and romancist, son of the preceding; born at Paris about 1824; died there Nov. 27, 1895. He published a small volume of poems, "Sins of Youth", at 17. Accompanying his father in travels through Spain and Northern Africa, on his return he published his first romance: "Story of Four Women and a Parrot" (6 vols. 1847), which found little favor. Among his romances are: "A Woman's Romance"; "Cesarine"; "Camille" (La Dame aux Camelias); all in 1848. His dramas include: "Diana de Lys" (1853) and "The Demi-Monde" (1855). He also wrote the romance "The Clemenceau Case" (1864), dramatized under the same name: the pamphlets: "Women Murderers and Women Voters" (1872); "The Divorce Question" (1880); and the drmatic pieces: "The Natural Son" (1858); "The Friend of Women" (1864); "Claude's Wife" (1873); "The Danicheffs" (1876); "Joseph Balsamo" (1878); "Francillon" (1887); and others.