Marc-Antoine-Amédée Michel, known as Marc-Michel (22 July 1812 in

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

– 12 March 1868 in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

) was a French poet, playwright and journalist. He is perhaps best known today for the 1851

farce Farce is a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable. Farce is also characterized by heavy use of physical humor; the use of deliberate absurdity o ...

he co-wrote with

Eugène Marin Labiche Eugène Marin Labiche (6 May 181522 January 1888) was a French dramatist. He remains famous for his contribution to the vaudeville genre and his passionate and domestic pochads. In the 1860s, he reached his peak with a series of successes i ...

, '' The Italian Straw Hat'', since then adapted many times to stage and screen.

Life

He began his studies in

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. ...

in 1821 at the collège Saint-Louis, run by the Jesuits.

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*http://viaf.org/viaf/61566488 *http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12057064d {{authority control Writers from Marseille 1812 births 1868 deaths 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French journalists French male journalists 19th-century French poets 19th-century French male writers