A collaborator of Alexandre Dumas.
Many of Dumas' famous works were co-written with Maquet, such as
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and
Les Trois Mousquetaires (and its sequels
Vingt Ans après and
Le Vicomte de Bragelonne).
He co-wrote the "Valois Romances", including
La Reine Margot,
La dame de Monsoreau, and
Les Quarante-Cinq.
Maquet also co-wrote four of the "Marie Antoinette" romances, including
Mémoires d'un médecin: Joseph Balsamo,
Le collier de la reine,
Ange Pitou, and Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge.
He also co-wrote
Le Chevalier d'Harmental, and the sequel
Une Fille du Régent.
In addition, he helped write
La guerre des femmes and
Sylvandire (Beau Tancred).
Maquet was a history professor, and a later a writer.
They first met when Maquet's play The Night of Mardi-Gras
was given to Dumas by a friend who asked him to rewrite it.
The new drama was christened
Bathilde
and was a success.
Maquet gave another novel Good Old Buvat to Dumas, who
got it published in a serial format as
Le Chevalier d'Harmental.
The publisher insisted that
a novel by Dumas was worth many times more than a novel by Dumas
and Maquet, thus though Maquet was paid a huge amount,
8000 francs, Dumas was the only name on it.
Dumas and Maquet soon realized that people clamored for
romanticized history, thus were written several novels.
Maquet would write the rough draft, and Dumas would add
details, characters, and dialogue, and lengthen the story (as
they were paid by the line.)
While Dumas died poor, Maquet died rich.
