Charles Brifaut


Charles Brifaut was a French poet, journalist, publicist and playwright.

Biography

A liberal royalist, Brifaut edited the Gazette de France and attended the salon of Madame Vigée-Lebrun. He also worked as a censor and it was he who the interior minister entrusted with controlling Hernani and with warning Victor Hugo that Marion Delorme had been stopped. Pensioned off by Charles X, he was elected to the Académie française in 1826.
He was associated with the editing of the memoirs of the actress Lola Montez, one of the lovers of Alexandre Dumas.

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