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ALEXANDRE VINCENT DUVAL

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 737 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDRE
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VINCENT
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DUVAL  PINED% (1767–1842),
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French dramatist, was
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born at
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Rennes on the 6th of
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April 1767 . He was in turn sailor, architect, actor, theatrical manager and dramatist . He is the characteristic dramatist of the
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Empire, but the least ambitious of his dramas have best stood the test of
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time .
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Les Projets de
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menage (1790), Les Tuteurs venges (1794) and Les Heritiers (1796) have been revived on the
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modern French
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stage . Others among his plays, which number more than sixty, are Le Menuisier de Livonie (1805), La Manic
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des grandeurs (1817) and Le Faux Bonhomme (1821) . In 1812 he was elected to the
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Academy . He died on the 1st of
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September 1842 .

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