Charles Gabet


Émile Étienne Charles Gabet was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist.

Biography

Gabet was the son of the painter and his wife Françoise Ursine Eugénie Viquesnel.
He led parallel careers as a commissaire de police and a dramatist. He was commissaire de police of the Porte-Saint-Martin quartier. As a playwright and librettist, he worked with several major authors of his time: Alexandre Dumas, Clairville and Adolphe d'Ennery. He also parodied Victor Hugo with a malicious Ruy-Black, lampooning Ruy Blas.
He died at the age of 81 in 1903 in his home at 89 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin in Paris.

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