Ernest the Spine

Ernest-Louis-Victor-Jules the Spine is writer and Dramaturge French born with Paris the September 12th 1826 and died in Paris the February 4th 1893.

Secretary of the duke of Morny, it became in 1865 public auditor with the Court of Auditors, was member of the Société of the men of letters and principal private secretary of the president of the legislative Body.

He wrote some plays with Alphonse Daudet: the Last Idol (1862, under the pseudonym of Manual Ernest), the white Eyelet (1865), the Older brother (1867) and published, either under its name or under the pseudonym of Quatrelles , of volumes where one finds a liveliness a little maniérée and humor: the Legend of Croquemitaine (1863), the dazzling Princess (1869), has Rifle shots (1875, on the war of 1870), Théâtre of the Madnesses-Quatrelles (1882), My small Last (1885), has excess (1888), One year of reign (1891), Histoire of the Castagnette captain, the diligence of Ploërmel, etc

In addition, he also collaborated in the Constitutionnel and Parisian life . Also let us note that Daudet was also a collaborator of the duke of Morny.

Let us note finally that the Last Idol , drama in an act, in prose, created to the Odéon the February 4th 1862, entered to the repertory of the Comédie-Française in 1904. One also owes him the extravagant Loves of the princess Djalavann (Paris, 1880).

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