Charles Vincent (playwright)

Charles Hubert Vincent (Fontainebleau, 15 April 1828 – 16 August 1888) was a 19th-century French playwright, chansonnier, goguettier, novelist, journalist and publisher.

Coming from a family of four generations of wig makers, he left the Graduate School of Fontainebleau at the age of thirteen and engaged in several little jobs.

During the French Revolution of 1848, Charles attracted attention with his revolutionary poems, published in 1849 under the title Album révolutionnaire.

He wrote many novels, poems and songs, including the collection titled Refrains du dimanche (Paris, 1856), composed in collaboration with Édouard Plouvier and illustrated by Gustave Doré.

He also authored L'Enfant du Tour de France, five-act drama given in 1857, as well as one vaudeville, La Crème des domestiques, in 1858.