Victor Sejour – France’s Most Popular Playwright in the 1850s
March 17, 2025
By Dannie Gore Victor Sejour, New Orleans Mulatto, rose to be France’s most popular playwright in the 1850s. Born in 1817, he won distinction at the age of 17 with his first poem. In 1836 his parents sent him to Paris to escape America’s color prejudice. Here he became private secretary to Louis Napoleon, later […]
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