title: Auguste Duport
text: # Auguste Duport
  
  Auguste Duport, full name François Auguste Duport, (22 January 1777 – 5 September 1843) was a French playwright.
  
  Originally a carpenter, he embraced literature and his plays were performed at the Théâtre du Gymnase dramatique, at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique and at the Théâtre-Français.
  
  ## Selected works
  
  * 1820 : Le Frère Philippe, opéra comique in one act, with Victor Dourlen
  * 1824 : Le Beau-frère, ou la Veuve à deux maris, comédie-vaudeville in one act, with Paul Duport and Amable de Saint-Hilaire,
  * 1824 : Une journée de Charles V, comédie in one act and in prose, with P. Duport
  * 1834 : Le Marchand forain, opéra-comique in three acte, with Eugène Planard
  