Étienne-Auguste Dossion


Étienne-Auguste Dossion was a French playwright and poet.

Biography

The son of an extra dancer at the Paris Opera, Dossion was "one of these writers-actors who contributed to the formation of the song repertoire, and one of the most fruitful." He was successively a notary clerk, a prompter and a Harlequin at the Théâtre du Vaudeville, a master of studies at Collège Sainte-Barbe, a bridges inspector, an employee at the Interior Ministry under Corbière, dismissed through the influence of Godiche because he always threw him tobacco puffs and he smelled of eau de vie, a launderer at Vaugirard, before finishing a day laborer and dying at the Hôtel-Dieu.

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