VICTOR HENRI JOSEPH BRAHAIN DUCANGE
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A French poet and story-teller (1783-1833); born at the Hague. His first stories, "Agatha" and "Valentine", were received with great favor; but for his too realistic description in "Valentine" of the excesses of the royalist bands, he was sent to jail for six months. Released, he was again imprisoned, ostensibly for vilifying the French Academy. Once more he offended with "Thelene, or Love and War", and had to take refuge in Belgium. Other novels are: "The confessor-Doctor"; "The Artist and the Soldier"; etc. Of his numerous plays the best and most famed is "Thirty Years, or the Life of a Gambler". His novels are vividly dramatic and descriptive, but he loves the horrible too well.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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