Mallefille, Jean-Pierre-Fálicien
(1813–1868)> WRITER
Mallefille, Jean-Pierre-Fálicien (3 May 1813, Mauritius; 24 November 1868, Le Cormier), writer, was the son of a sailor whose family lived on Reunion and the Seychelles after the birth of his son on Mauritius. The future writer came to France at age nine after a shipwreck and ten days without food or drink. He studied in various schools of Paris before publishing his first text at age 20 in the Revue de Paris Mallefille turned immediately to doing texts for the theatre, and his first play…