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Victor Balaguer

Catalan poet and Spanish politician and historian
Also known as: Victor Balaguer i Cirera
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Victor Balaguer (born Dec. 11, 1824, Barcelona, Spain—died Jan. 14, 1901, Madrid) was a Catalan poet and Spanish politician and historian. Balaguer was a precocious youth; his first dramatic essay, Pépin el Jorobado; o, el hijo de Carlomagno (1838; “Pippin the Hunchbacked; or, The Son of Charlemagne”), was staged in Barcelona when he was 14. At 19 he was publicly “crowned” after the production of his second play, Don Enrique el Dadivoso (1843; “Don Henry...

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