| | Mirette, The Little Gypsy |
30 December 1871, Paris, France |
Élie Sauvage, full name Élie François Victor Sauvage, (13 May 1814 – 30 December 1871), was a 19th-century French playwright and novelist.
He was the son of Angélique-Renée Rotureau and René Sauvage, a trader in Mayenne. He collaborated to the newspaper La Mayenne and began his literary career with a volume of verse. He then turned to the theater and produced alone or in collaboration, a dozen plays. A member of the Société des gens de lettres, towards the end of his life he published two novels, Mirette, a spiritist one, and La Petite Bohémienne which was translated into English as The Little Gipsy.
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