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Occupation
  
Playwright

Grandparent
  
Noël François de Wailly

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Full Name
  
Gabriel Gustave de Wailly

Born
  
13 June 1804
Paris

Died
  
27 April 1878, 1st arrondissement, Paris, France

Parents
  
Étienne-Augustin de Wailly, Joséphine-Augustine-Félicité Raffard de Marcilly

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Gustave de Wailly, full name Gabriel Gustave de Wailly, (13 June 1804 – 27 April 1878 ) was a 19th-century French playwright and Latinist. Léon de Wailly was his brother.

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Biography

Brought up in a family of writers and academics, master of requests at the Conseil d’État (1830), he became inspector general of the former civil list and was known for his dramas.

He is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (20th division).

Works

Some of his works were published under the pseudonym Mme Marie Senan.

Translations

He realised many translations among others of Seneca the Younger and Virgil :

  • 1836: Œuvres complètes de Sénèque le philosophe, with Alfred de Wailly.
  • 1878: Odes d'Horace, with Étienne-Augustin De Wailly.
  • Honours

  • Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur (30 July 1832)
  • References

    Gustave de Wailly Wikipedia


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