Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois

Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois was a French dramatist of the Paris boulevard theatres, who wrote, alone or with others, some two hundred plays, most of them vaudevilles and historical dramas, at as many as ten a year. With Francis Cornu he wrote the drama Nabuchodonosor, given at the Ambigu-Comique in 1836, which with the Bible lies behind Solera's libretto for Verdi's Nabucco, though Antonio Cortese's ballet on the play was the more important source. Two plays given under Alexandre Dumas's name were his, and he was vice-president of the Société des auteurs dramatiques.