Paul Margueritte (20 February 1860 – 29 December 1918) was a French amateur

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who wrote several pantomimes, most notably ''

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assassin de sa femme'' (Théâtre de Valvins, 1881) and, in collaboration with Fernand Beissier, ''Colombine pardonnée'' ( Cercle Funambulesque, 1888) as well as a

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.Paul and Victor Margueritte, ''Nos Tréteaux: Charades de Victor Margueritte, pantomimes de Paul Margueritte'' (Paris: Les Bibliophiles Fantaisistes, 1910). Paul Margueritte was born in

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, the son of General

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(1823–1870), who was mortally wounded in the

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. An account of his life was published by Paul Margueritte as ''Mon père'' (1884; enlarged ed., 1897). Paul's name is generally associated with that of his brother,

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, because of their frequent collaboration. Margueritte, who has given a picture of his home in Algiers in ''Le Jardin du passé'' (1895), was sent to the military school of La Flèche for the sons of officers, and became in 1880 clerk to the minister of public instruction. Margueritte, along with Paul Bonnetain, J. H. Rosny, Lucien Descaves, and Gustave Guiches, released "The Manifesto of the Five" in

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in 1887 attacking the profane Realism of Emile Zola's Le Terre. He is the author of a

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novel, entitled ''Tous Quatre.'' The authors

Lucie Paul-Margueritte Lucie Paul-Margueritte (9 January 1886 - 10 May 1955) was a French-language writer and translator. She was the recipient of the Legion of Honour as well as multiple awards from the Académie Française. She lived and worked with her widowed sister ...

and

Ève Paul-Margueritte Ève Paul-Margueritte (5 February 1885 – 16 July 1971) was a French-language writer, the author of many sentimental novels. After she was widowed and her sister, Lucie Paul-Margueritte, was divorced, they lived and worked together, co-authoring ...

were his daughters.

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* * 1860 births 1918 deaths French male writers

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