Paul Meurice

Paul Meurice

Paul Meurice (born February 5, 1818 in Paris , † December 11, 1905 there ) was a French writer.

Meurice was introduced to the circle around Victor Hugo by his school friend Auguste Vacquerie around 1836 and was soon a regular guest in his house. In 1848 he became editor-in-chief of the journal L'Événement founded by Hugo . Like Hugo, he was arrested during the coup d'état in 1851. After his release he represented the interests of Hugo, who was in exile, in France. In 1869 he founded the magazine Le Rappel with Auguste Vacquerie and Hugo's sons Charles and François-Victor Hugo .

Hugo made him his executor, and in this capacity he was in charge of the forty-five-volume Édition Nationale of Hugo's complete works. On his 100th birthday in 1902, he founded the Musée Victor Hugo in Hugo's house on Place des Vosges .

At the beginning of his writing career he wrote the play Falstaff (after William Shakespeare ) with Vacquerie and Théophile Gautier in 1842 . This followed in 1844, in collaboration with Vacquerie, Antigone . An adaptation of Hamlet , which he wrote with Alexandre Dumas , was published under his own name. Le Drac was created in collaboration with George Sand .

After a series of independent works, Meurice wrote three theater adaptations of Hugo's novels in the late 1870s: Les Miserables (1878), Notre Dame de Paris (1876) and Quatre-vingt-treize (1881). Meurice also published several novels.

Works

• Falstaff , 1842
• Antigone , 1844
• Hamlet , 1847
• Benvenuto Cellini , 1852
• Schamyl , 1854
• Fanfan la Tulipe , 1858
• Le Maître d'école , 1858
• François-les-bas-bleus , 1863
• Notre Dame de Paris , 1876
• Les Miserables , 1878
• Quatre-vingt-treize , 1881
• Struensee , 1893
• Le Drac