Henri Lavedan
Henri Léon Emile Lavedan (✦9 April 1859 – †4 September 1940), French dramatist and man of letters, was born at Orléans, the son of Hubert Lavedan, a well-known Catholic and liberal journalist.
Lavedan contributed to various Parisian papers a series of witty tales and dialogues of Parisian life, many of which were collected in volume form. In 1891 he produced at the [1] Une Famille, followed at the Vaudeville in 1894 by Le Prince d'Aurec, a satire on the nobility, afterward renamed Les Descendants.
He had a great success with Le Duel ([2] 1905), a powerful psychological study of the relations of two brothers, which was turned into a movie--The Duel—on which he was a co-writer. It was translated into English by Louis N. Parker and performed in New York in 1906 at the Hudson Theatre.
Lavedan was admitted to the "Académie française [3]" in 1898.
Works
- Les Deux noblesses (1897)
- Catherine (1897)
- Le nouveau jeu (1898
- Le Vieux marcheur (1899)
- Le Marquis de Priola (1902)
- Varennes (1904), written in collaboration with G. Lentre
- Le bon temps (1906)
- L’assassinat du duc de Guise (1908)
References
- ↑ Théâtre Français @ Wikipedia:Théâtre Français
- ↑ Comédie-Française @ Wikipedia:Comédie-Française
- ↑ Académie française @ Wikipedia:Académie française
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