Félix Duquesnel

Félix Henri Duquesnel (2 July 1832 – 28 April 1915) was a French journalist, playwright and novelist.

Biography He studied at the College Rollin, then at the Faculty of Law and was admitted to the bar which he quickly left to turn to journalism.

A journalist at L'Illustration, Je sais tout or Le Gaulois among other newspapers, Duquesne was theatre manager of the Théâtre de l'Odéon from 1866, of the Théâtre du Châtelet (with Émile Rochard) (1880-1882), then of the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin from 1884 to 1893. His plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of his time, including the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt, the Théâtre du Vaudeville, and the Théâtre des Capucines.

He left an important correspondence with numerous personalities of the nineteenth century such as Émile Augier, Gustave Flaubert, Sainte-Beuve, Jules Sandeau, Adolphe d'Ennery, Xavier de Montépin, Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas, George Sand.

Works

Theatre 1903: La Peur, one-act comedy 1906: La maîtresse de piano, play in five acts and 6 tableaux preceded by a prologue, with André Barde 1907: Patachon, four-act comedy, with Maurice Hennequin 1907: Le Cavalier Pioche, one-act play 1909: La saison russe à Paris 1911: Sa Fille, four-act comedy, with Barde

Novels 1895: Le Roman d'une fleuriste, Ollendorff 1904: Contes des dix mille et deux nuits, Flammarion 1905: Le mystère de Gaude, Calmann-Lévy 1909: Monsieur Roussignac, policier, Juven 1910: A la flamme de Paris, Fasquelle 1913: La bande des habits noirs, Fasquelle

Other L'alphabet rationnel, étude sur l'alphabétisme et la graphie de la langue française, Delagrave, 1897 Souvenirs littéraires : George Sand, Alexandre Dumas, souvenirs intimes, Plon-Nourrit, posth., 1922