Auguste Maquet

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Auguste Maquet (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Son of a prosperous industrialist, Auguste Maquet (mah-kay) studied, then taught, history at Paris’s Lycée Charlemagne. By 1830, he had joined his school friends Gérard de Nerval and Théophile Gautier, later prominent writers, in Le Petit Cénacle, a bohemian literary group formed to support Romanticism against the classical tradition. That same year this cénacle rowdily championed the premiere of Victor Hugo’s revolutionarily poetic drama, Hernani. Soon, Maquet abandoned teaching for writing, using a romantically anglicized version of his name, Augustus MacKeat, to sign...

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