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Nestor Roqueplan (1804–1870)
Roqueplan, Louis Victor Nestor (rōk-plä
‘). A French littérateur; born at Mallemort (dept. Bouches-du-Rhône), in 1804; died in Paris, April 24, 1870. He gained a reputation at the end of the Restoration by his contributions to literary journals, principally Figaro. He published a number of clever books, among them being: ‘News at Hand’; ‘Aftermath of Parisian Life’ (1853); and ‘The Green-Rooms of the Opera’ (1855).