Alfred Capus
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Alfred Capus (25 November 1858[1][2]Template:Snd1 November 1922) was a French journalist and playwright, who was born in Aix-en-Provence and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Biography
Son of a lawyer from Marseille, Alfred Capus went to university in Toulon. After failing several entrance tests for higher-education schools and working as a draughtsman for a while, he went on to become a journalist.
One of his first articles was an obituary of Darwin.[3] He went on to write humorous pieces for papers such as Gaulois, L'Écho de Paris and L'Illustration. He also wrote for Le Figaro, under the penname of Graindorge. In 1914, he became the editor of Figaro. During the First World War he wrote stridently patriotic pieces.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
On 12 February 1914, he became a member of the Académie française.
Work and themes
In 1878, in collaboration with L. Vonoven, he published a volume of short stories; the next year the two produced a one-act piece, Le Mari malgre lui, at the Théâtre Cluny.[4]
His novels, Qui perd gagne (1890), Faux Depart (1891), Année des d'aventures (1895), describe the struggles of three young men at the beginning of their career. From the first of these he took his first comedy, Brignol et sa fille (Vaudeville, November 23, 1894).[4]
The German film Leontine's Husbands, released in 1928 and starring Claire Rommer, Georg Alexander, Adele Sandrock and Truus van Aalten, was adapted from Capus' 1900 comedy Les Maris de Leontine.
Bibliography
Plays
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- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1903), with Emmanuel Arène, which was produced in London by George Alexander as The Man of the Moment
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1904), the first of his plays to be performed at the Théâtre Français
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Novels
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References
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- ↑ A few sources state 1857, but the majority state 1858
- ↑ Barrett H. Clark (1915), Contemporary French Dramatists, Stewart & Kidd Company, Cincinnati, page 139
- ↑ a b c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Script error: No such module "template wrapper". This cites Édouard Quet, Alfred Capus (1904), with appreciations by various authors, in the series of Célébrités d'aujourd'hui.
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