Albert Delpit

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Albert Delpit (born January 30, 1849 in New Orleans , † 1893 ) was a French novelist and stage poet.

Delpit was the son of a wealthy tobacconist and came to France in his youth, where he studied in Paris and Bordeaux . He then began his writing career, initially as a collaborator in the magazines founded by Alexandre Dumas the Elder : Le Mousquetaire and Le d'Artagnan.

After taking part in the Franco-Prussian War as a volunteer, he received academic prizes for a volume of poems: L'invasion (1872) and for the poetry Le repentir, ou récit d'un curé de campagne (1873). But with his dramatic attempts: Robert Pradel (1874), Le message de Scapin (1876) and Les chevaliers de la patrie (1877) still had with his novels: Les compagnons du roi (1874), Jean-Nu-Pieds (1874) , La vengeresse (1876), Les mystères du Bas-Meudon (1877), Le fils de joie (1877) less success, until it finally found itself with Le fils de Coralie (1879) with readers like (in a dramatic adaptation) on the Stage gained full recognition. With Le mariage d'Odette (1880) he got completely into the waters of Catholic society and won a new award from the Academy.

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SURNAME Delpit, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French novelist and stage poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans
DATE OF DEATH 1893