Victor Henri Joseph Brahain Ducange, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Victor Henri Joseph Brahain Ducange

French novelist and dramatist

Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1783

Place of Birth: The Hague, County of Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 15-Oct-1833

Profession: writer, playwright, novelist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Victor Henri-Joseph Brahain du Cange (or Ducange) (November 24, 1783 – October 15, 1833) was a French novelist and dramatist, born at the Hague, where his father was secretary to the French embassy. Dismissed from the civil service at the Restoration, Ducange became one of the favorite authors of the liberal party, and owed some part of his popularity to the fact that he was fined and imprisoned more than once for his outspokenness.
He was six months in prison for an article in his journal Le Diable rose, ou le petit courrier de Lucifer (1822); for Valentine (1821), in which the royalist excesses in the south of France were pilloried, he was again imprisoned; and after the publication of Hélène ou l'amour et la guerre (1823), he took refuge for some time in Belgium.Ducange wrote numerous plays and melodramas, among which the most successful were Marco Loricot, ou le petit Chouan de 1830(1836), and Trente ans, ou la vie d'un joueur (1827), in which Frédérick Lemaître found one of his best parts.
Many of his books were prohibited, ostensibly for their coarseness, but perhaps rather for their political tendencies.
He died in Paris.