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Émile Bergerat
Émile Bergerat (29 April 1845 in Paris – 13 October 1923 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French poet, playwright and essayist. He used the pseudonyms l'Homme masqué (the masked man), Caliban and Ariel (the latter two drawn from "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare). A library in Neuilly-sur-Seine opposite his flat bears his name.
Life.
An essayist for "Voltaire" and "Figaro", head of the "La Vie moderne" review
under the editorship of Georges Charpentier and a member of the Académie Goncourt, he was the son in law of Théophile Gautier and the brother in law of Théophile Gautier (fils). Émile Bergerat married Estelle Gautier, daughter of Théophile Gautier, and they had one son, Théo Bergerat, director and radio essayist. Théophile wrote in a letter to Carlotta Grisi that Émile was
Works.
- "Les cuirassiers de Reichshoffen" (Lemerre, 1871)
- "A. Chateaudun" (Lemerre, 1871)
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