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Émile Étienne Charles Gabet (16 May 1821 in Paris – 15 January 1903) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist.

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Biography

Gabet was the son of the painter Charles Gabet and his wife Françoise Ursine Eugénie Viquesnel.^{[citation needed]}

He led parallel careers as a commissaire de police and a dramatist. He was commissaire de police of the Porte-Saint-Martin quartier (that of théâtres of the boulevards Saint-Martin and Strasbourg).^{[citation needed]} As a playwright and librettist, he worked with several major authors of his time: Alexandre Dumas, Clairville and Adolphe d'Ennery.^{[citation needed]} He also parodied Victor Hugo with a malicious Ruy-Black, lampooning Ruy Blas.^{[citation needed]}

He died at the age of 81 in 1903 in his home at 89 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin in Paris.^{[citation needed]}

Works

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