Ernest Doin

Born in Bourges in 1809, Ernest Doin later left France for North America and went on to teach and work in French Canada. Sources connected with La Prairie describe him as a teacher, while library and public-domain records identify him as a French-language writer active in the 1800s.

Doin is best remembered for short theatrical works and comic pieces. Public-domain catalogs list a substantial body of plays under his name, including farces and light dramatic works such as Le divorce du tailleur, Le dîner interrompu, and Le Conscrit ou Le Retour de Crimée.

He died in 1891. Although he is not a widely known literary figure today, his surviving works offer a small but vivid glimpse of popular French-language theater in the nineteenth century, especially the kind of writing meant to entertain audiences clearly and directly.