Location: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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French dramatist, noted traveller, and philanthropist. He was Royal Commissioner of the Theatre Francaise between 1825-38. During this period he used his position to encourage the production of Romantic drama. Among those he helped was Alexandre Dumas, père, who dedicated to Taylor his first successful play, Henri III et sa cour / The court of Henry III (1829). Taylor himself wrote several plays, including Ismael et Maryam, ou l’arabe et la chrétienne / The Arab and the Christian (1821) and La fille de l’Hébreu et le chevalier du temple / The Jewess and the Templar (1823). He was elected to the Académie Française in 1847.
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