Meurice was best-known as a protégé and close friend of Hugo, whose liberal journal L'Evénement Meurice edited until its condemnation after the 1851 coup d'état.
He helped write
Amaury and
Ascanio and helped translate
Hamlet, prince de Danemark. It is generally accepted that he wrote The Two Dianas (both novel and play), and Benvenuto Cellini
