Pierre Joseph de Vassivière (23 April 1879, in

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur ...

– after 1933) was a 20th-century

French poet List of poets who have written in the French language: A * Louise-Victorine Ackermann (1813–1890) * Adam de la Halle (v.1250 – v.1285) * Pierre Albert-Birot (1876–1967) * Anne-Marie Albiach (1937–2012) * Pierre Alféri (1963) * Marc Aly ...

and

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...

A lawyer at the Court of Appeal of Paris, he is best known for having received the Prix Caroline Jouffroy-Renault of the

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in 1934 for ''A fleur d’aile''.Site de l'Académie française
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Works

*18992: ''Tout par l'égoïsme'' *1917: ''D'Estanzit, ou l'Éminence jaune'', one-act comedy, with Gustave Guiches *1917: ''Le Budget de l'amour'', one-act comedy, with Raphaël Adam *1917: ''Une Larme de poète'', play in verse in 1 act, with

Guillaume Livet Charles Guillaume Livet (24 January 1856 – 16 April 1919) was a French playwright, journalist, novelist and physician. Biography A student in hospitals and journalist with '' L’Événement'', ''Le Temps'', ''Gil Blas'', the ''Voltaire'' (1 ...

*1917: ''Le Revenant'', drama in 3 acts *1918: ''L'Âme française. Ode à la France'' *1923: ''La Berceuse de l'Angelus'', poetry *1923: ''A fleur d’aile'', collection of poems, foreword by Jean Richepin *1925: ''Dans l'ombre'',

one-act play A one-act play is a play that has only one act, as distinct from plays that occur over several acts. One-act plays may consist of one or more scenes. The 20-40 minute play has emerged as a popular subgenre of the one-act play, especially in writi ...

*1828: ''Anthologie de ''l'Anti-Chapelle Poétique''. Des vers, 100 poèmes à dire ou à mettre en musique'' *1931: ''La Jeune fille doit-elle rester vierge ?'' *1933: ''Vague du désir''

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vassiviere, Joseph 20th-century French dramatists and playwrights 20th-century French poets 1879 births Writers from Bordeaux Year of death missing