Mathurin-Joseph Brisset

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Mathurin-Joseph Brisset (22 November 1792, Dreux – 7 June 1856, Paris) was a French writer, poet, political journalist and playwright. He began as a bodyguard and then an infantry officer under Louis XVIII and Charles X. He fought in the 1823 Spanish campaign and earned the first-class cross of the Order of Saint Ferdinand. After the July Revolution of 1830, he left the army and became a political critic for the Gazette de France, where he also did theatre criticism. He wrote many historical novels, and his plays were staged at major Paris theatres such as Théâtre des Nouveautés, Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin and Gymnase dramatique.