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Henri Nicolle

1820–1877

A 19th-century French man of letters, he is remembered for light theatrical writing and for a historical study of the Château de Maisons. His surviving works suggest a writer drawn to both the stage and the stories attached to old places.

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About the author

Henri Nicolle was a 19th-century French writer. Library and catalog records identify him as a French-language author active in the mid-1800s, with dates commonly given as 1819–1877, though some book records list him as 1820–1877.

The sources I found connect him especially with dramatic writing: the Musée d'Orsay labels him an auteur dramatique, and Project Gutenberg preserves Min Tants Planer, a Swedish translation of one of his one-act comedies. Catalog listings also credit him with Le château de Maisons: son histoire et celle des principaux personnages qui l'ont possédé, showing that he also wrote local or historical nonfiction.

Taken together, those records sketch a versatile literary figure rather than a widely documented celebrity: a playwright, man of letters, and occasional historian whose work moved between comedy and the past of notable French places.