Gustave de Wailly
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Grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery
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| Born |
Gabriel Gustave de Wailly 13 June 1804 Paris |
| Died | 27 April 1878 (aged 73) 1st arrondissement of Paris |
| Occupation | Playwright |
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.
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).
Some of his works were published under the pseudonym Mme Marie Senan.
He realised many translations among others of Seneca the Younger and Virgil :
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