Abuffard Eugène Augustin Woestyn (1813, in Romorantin-Lanthenay – 18 April 1861, in Paris) was a 19th-century French playwright, librettist, poet, journalist, chansonnier and writer.
Woestyn met Victor Hugo at 14 and had him read his poems.
[1] He later became a critic and editor for Le Figaro,[2] and by his profession, left a correspondence with authors like Honoré de Balzac from 1840.
[3] He also participated with the Journal du dimanche[4] or among others with Le Gaulois,[5] was a chief editor of the Foyer (1843)[6] and wrote many articles, sometimes polemical,[7] which led to a major quarrel with Frédérick Lemaître.
[8] In 1857, he also became chief editor of the Blason de l'Industrie française and in 1858 of the Figaro-programme.