Anicet-Bougeois, the popular name of Augusts Anicet Bouegeois, a French playwright, born in Paris, Dec. 25, 1806, died at Pau, Jan. 12, 1871. He was a clerk in a lawyer's office, when he wrote in 1825 his first melodrama, Gutave, ou le Napolitain. He afterward produced over 200 plays, most of them in conjunction with other authors, though he was the sole author of his best drama. La Venitienne (1834). His fairy plays have had! an immense run, especially Les pilules clu Dia- \ ble. He is also believed to have been the real author of Teresa, Angele, and other pieces as- cribed to Alexandre Dumas. His remains have ! been removed to Paris, where he was buried May 10, 1872, Alexandre Dumas the younger pronouncing the funeral oration.