Albert de Saint-Albin

Albert de Saint-Albin (1843, in Paris – 18 December 1901, in Paris) was a 19th-century French playwright, journalist, chansonnier and librettist.

A journalist at Le Temps, chief editor of the Jockey (1866) and the Le Figaro (1880), he was known as a sports columnist under the pseudonym Robert Milton and was a great promoter of fencing.

[1] His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century, including the Théâtre des Variétés, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, the Théâtre du Vaudeville, and the Théâtre de la Gaîté.

Moreover, Saint-Albin was a great collector of paintings by Eugène Boudin of which he owned a dozen works[2] and by Gustave Moreau.

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