Paul Hervieu (2 September 185725 October 1915) was a
French novelist
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and
playwright.
Early years
He was born Paul-Ernest Hervieu in
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
Hervieu was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family.
He studied law, but sought also had contact with writers like
Leconte de Lisle,
Paul Verlaine
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and
Alphonse Daudet
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Early life
Daudet was born in Nîmes, France. His family, on both sides, belonged to the ...
. After graduating in 1877, he first practiced in a law firm, in 1879 qualified for the diplomatic service, and was posted in the French Embassy in Mexico.
But he preferred to remain in France, where he attended fashionable literary salons, and the acquaintance of artists and writers such as
Marcel Proust,
Paul Bourget
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Life
Paul Bourget was born in Amiens in the Somme ''département'' of Picar ...
,
Henri Meilhac
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,
Ludovic Halévy
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Biography
Ludovic Halévy was born in ...
,
Guy de Maupassant
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and
Edgar Degas. On the recommendation of his friend Octave Mirbeau, he tried his hand as a journalist.
Career
Hervieu was
called to the bar in 1877, and, after serving some time in the office of the president of the council, he qualified for the
diplomatic service
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, but resigned on his nomination in 1881 to a secretaryship in the French
legation in
Mexico
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.
[ This in turn cites or notes:
*]Alfred Binet
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, in '' L'Année psychologique'', vol. x.
*Hervieu's ''Théâtre'' was published by Lemerre (3 vols, 1900–1904).
He contributed novels, tales and essays to the chief
Paris
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ian papers and reviews, and published a series of clever novels, including ''
L'Inconnue
"L'Inconnue" is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885.
Synopsis
On the Concorde bridge, baron Roger des Annettes meets a stranger who has "an effect... an astonishing effect" on him.
Publication
''L'Inconnue'' was ...
'' (1887), ''
Flirt
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I ...
'' (1890), ''
L'Exorcisée'' (1891), ''
Peints par eux-mêmes'' (1893), an ironic study
written in the form of letters, and ''
L'Armature'' (1895), dramatized in 1905 by
Eugène Brieux
Eugène Brieux (; 19 January 18586 December 1932), French dramatist, was born in Paris of poor parents.
Biography
Works
A one-act play, ''Bernard Palissy'', written in collaboration with M. Gaston Salandri, was produced in 1879, but he h ...
.
[
Hervieu's plays are built upon a severely logical method, the mechanism of which is sometimes so evident as to destroy the necessary sense of illusion. The closing words of '']La Course du flambeau
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* "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figure ...
'' (1901) "Pour ma fille, j'ai tué ma mère" (For my daughter, I killed my mother), are an example of his selection of a plot representing an extreme theory.
The riddle in '' L'Énigme'' (1901) (staged at Wyndham's Theatre
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, London
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, 1 March 1902, as ''Caesar's Wife'') is, however, worked out with great art, and '' Le Dédale'' (1903), dealing with the obstacles to the remarriage of a divorced woman, is reckoned among the masterpieces of the modern French stage.[ He produced his last play, ''Le Destin est Maître'', in 1914.]
Honours
He was elected to the Académie française in 1900.[
]
Death
Hervieu died at age 57 in Paris
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, France, and was interred in its Passy Cemetery
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History
The current cemetery replaced the old cemetery (''l'ancien cimetière communal de Passy'', located on Rue Lekain), ...
.
Bibliography
*'' Les Paroles restent'' (Vaudeville, 17 November 1892)
*'' Les Tenailes'' ( Théâtre Français, 28 September 1895)
*'' La loi de l’homme'' ( Théâtre Français, 15 February 1897)
*''La Course du flambeau
LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States.
La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Music
* La (musical note), or A, the sixth note
* "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figure ...
'' (Vaudeville, 17 April 1901)
*'' Point de lendemain'' ( Théâtre de l'Odéon, 18 October 1901), a dramatic version of a story by Vivant Denon
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*'' L'Énigme'' ( Théâtre Français, 5 November 1901)
*''Théroigne de Méricourt
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'' ( Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt, 23 September 1902)
*'' Le Dédale'' ( Théâtre Français, 19 December 1903)
*''Le Réveil'' ( Théâtre Français, 18 December 1905)
See also
*List of French-language authors
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Middle Ages
* Turold (e ...
* List of French novelists
*List of French playwrights
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*List of members of the Académie française
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References
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