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Born 1800 Orléans Died January 1873, Paris, France | ||
Jean-Pierre-François Lesguillon, (1800 – January 1873) was an 19th-century French poet, novelist, playwright and librettist.
Lesguillon wrote comédies en vaudeville, comedies and dramas, in prose and in verse, novels, and a great number of pieces in verse crowned at the floral games and in the competitions of all departmental academies.
In 1830 he succeeded Justin Gensoul at the head of the Almanach des Muses which he directed until 1833, the year when he started publishing the periodical La Lanterne magique.
His Épître à M. N.-L. Lemercier earned him three months' imprisonment and a 300 francs fine in 1826 for "Having insulted and mocked the religion of the State" and "directed attacks against the royal dignity."
He was the husband of writer Hermance Lesguillon. Both are buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (49th division).