Eugène Labiche

	Eugène 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 pochades. In the 1860s, he reached his peak with a series of successes including Le Voyage de M. Perrichon (1860), La Poudre aux yeux (1861), La Station Champbaudet (1862) and La Cagnotte (1864). He worked with Jacques Offenbach, then director of the Bouffes-Parisiens, to write librettos for operettas and for several comic operas. His 1851 farce '' The Italian Straw Hat'', written with Marc-Michel, has been adapted many times to stage and screen. Early life He was born into a bourgeois family and studied law. At the age of twenty, he contributed a short story to ''Chérubin'' magazine, entitled "Les plus belles sont les plus fausses" ("The most beautiful are the most fake/false"). A few others followed, but failed to catch the attention of the public. Career Labiche tried his hand at dramatic criticism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in the European Union and the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, Fashion capital, fashion, and gastronomy. Because of its leading role in the French art, arts and Science and technology in France, sciences and its early adoption of extensive street lighting, Paris became known as the City of Light in the 19th century. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants in January 2023, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Charles Varin Charles Voirin, called Varin, (20 January 1798 (1er pluviôse an VI) – 24 April 1869) was a 19th-century French playwright. He also wrote under the pen names V. Warin and Victor. Biography Destined by his father to the profession of notary, Varin spent ten years at the bottom of a study, where he once came to Paris without money. Interested in writing plays, he spent a long time to break the circle of obstacles which opposed its inception. When the first success came, around 1825, he called himself Victor first, then took the pseudonym Varin, so that his father kept in ignorance of its gains, would not suppress his student pension. After he made his way to the stage, it provided very regularly plays, usually vaudevilles, full of gaiety and movement. He wrote mostly in company with various authors. To cite only a few: Jean-François Bayard, Bayard, Clairville (Louis-François Nicolaïe), Clairville, Armand Chapeau, Desvergers, Paul de Kock, Félix Auguste Duvert, Duvert, E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Italian Straw Hat (1928 Film) ''The Italian Straw Hat'' () is a 1928 French silent film comedy written and directed by René Clair, in his feature debut, based on the 1851 play '' Un chapeau de paille d'Italie'', by Eugène Marin Labiche and Marc-Michel. Plot On the day of Fadinard's wedding, his horse eats a lady's hat on a bush at the roadside, while the lady is hidden behind the bush with her lover Lieutenant Tavernier. Because she is married, she cannot return home hatless without being compromised, and Tavernier orders Fadinard to replace the hat with one exactly like it - or else he will wreck his new home. In an elaborate sequence of complications, Fadinard tries to find a hat while keeping to his marriage schedule. Cast * Albert Préjean as Fadinard * Geymond Vital as Lieutenant Tavernier * Olga Chekhova as Anaïs de Beauperthuis, the compromised wife * Paul Ollivier as Vésinet, the deaf uncle * Alex Allin as Félix, the valet * Jim Gérald as Beauperthuis * Marise Maia as Hélène, the bride * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Louis Feuillade Louis Feuillade (; 19 February 1873 – 25 February 1925) was a French filmmaker of the silent film, silent era. Between 1906 and 1924, he directed over 630 films. He is primarily known for the crime serial film, serials ''Fantômas (1913 serial), Fantômas'', ''Les Vampires'' and ''Judex (1916 film), Judex'' made between 1913 and 1916. Early life and career Feuillade was born in Lunel, Hérault, Lunel, Hérault, to Barthélémy Feuillade, a modest wine merchant, and Marie Avesque. From an early age, he showed a deep interest in literature and created numerous drama and vaudeville projects. His excessively academic poems were occasionally published in local newspapers, and he acquired a reputation for his articles devoted to bullfighting. At twelve, he was sent by his parents to a Catholic seminary in Carcassonne, which has been credited for his gothic stylization in his later career. His biographer Francis Lacassin has suggested that "the strange, surrealist flashes of anarch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Maurice Chevalier Maurice Auguste Chevalier (; 12 September 1888 – 1 January 1972) was a French singer, actor, and entertainer. He is best known for his signature songs, including " Livin' In The Sunlight", " Valentine", " Louise", " Mimi", and " Thank Heaven for Little Girls", and for his films, including '' The Love Parade'', '' The Big Pond'', '' The Smiling Lieutenant'', '' One Hour with You'', and '' Love Me Tonight''. His trademark attire was a boater hat and tuxedo. Chevalier was born in Paris. He made his name as a star of musical comedy, appearing in public as a singer and dancer at an early age before working in menial jobs as a teenager. In 1909, he became the partner of the biggest female star in France at the time, Fréhel. Although their relationship was brief, she secured him his first major engagement, as a mimic and a singer in ''l'Alcazar'' in Marseille, for which he received critical acclaim by French theatre critics. In 1917, he discovered jazz and ragtime and went to Londo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Henri Diamant-Berger Henri Diamant-Berger (9 June 1895 – 7 May 1972) was a French film director, director, film producer, producer and screenwriter. In a career that lasted more than 50 years, he directed 48 films between 1913 in film, 1913 and 1959 in film, 1959, produced 17 between 1925 in film, 1925 and 1967 in film, 1967 and wrote 21 screenplays between 1916 in film, 1916 and 1971 in film, 1971. Biography Born in Paris, to a Jewish family, he studied to be a lawyer but was drawn to the film, motion picture business. He began his career when he co-directed the 1913 silent film short film, short ''De film... en aiguilles'' with André Heuzé. In addition to writing screenplays, during the period from 1916 to 1919, Diamant-Berger also published and edited a film magazine and books about the movies. In 1918, he was hired by Pathé and sent to the United States to help set up the company's film laboratory at Fort Lee, New Jersey. Upon his return to France, Pathé had him set up a laboratory in Vince ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Académie Française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and Skills, skill, north of Ancient Athens, Athens, Greece. The Royal Spanish Academy defines academy as scientific, literary or artistic society established with public authority and as a teaching establishment, public or private, of a professional, artistic, technical or simply practical nature. Etymology The word comes from the ''Academy'' in ancient Greece, which derives from the Athenian hero, ''Akademos''. Outside the city walls of Athens, the Gymnasium (ancient Greece), gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning. The sacred space, dedicated to the goddess of wisdom, Athena, had formerly been an olive Grove (nature), grove, hence the expression "the groves of Academe". In these gardens, the philos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Émile Augier Guillaume Victor Émile Augier (; 17 September 182025 October 1889) was a French dramatist. He was the thirteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the on 31 March 1857. Biography Augier was born at Valence, Drôme, the grandson of Pigault Lebrun, and belonged to the well-to-do bourgeoisie in spirit as well as by birth. After a good education and legal training, he wrote a play in two acts and in verse, ''La Ciguë'' (1844), which was refused at the Théâtre Français, but produced with as considerable success at the Odéon. This settled his career. From then on, at fairly regular intervals, either alone or in collaboration with other writers— Jules Sandeau, Eugène Marin Labiche, Édouard Foussier—he produced plays such as ''Le Fils de Giboyer'' (1862)—which was regarded as an attack on the clerical party in France, and was surely brought out by the direct intervention of the emperor. His last comedy, ''Les Fourchambault'', belongs to the year 1879. After that date he wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Adolphe Choler Adolphe Joseph Choler (1821 – 19 January 1889) was a French playwright and librettist who was born in and died in Paris. He was Saint-Agnan Choler's brother. His plays were presented on the most important Parisian venues of the 19th century: Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, Théâtre des Variétés, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Théâtre du Gymnase-dramatique etc. He was managing director of the Théâtre du Palais-Royal from 1868 to 1879. Works 1842: ''Eva ou le Grillon du foyer'', comédie en vaudevilles in 2 acts, with Saint-Yves 1847: ''Mademoiselle Grabutot'', vaudeville in one act, with Saint-Yves 1848: ''Candide ou Tout est pour le mieux'', conte mêlé de couplets in 3 acts and 5 tableaux, with Clairville and Saint-Yves 1848: ''La république de Platon'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Saint-Yves 1849: ''Madame veuve Larifla'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Labiche 1849: ''Le Marquis de Carabas et la princesse Fanfreluche'', tale by Perrault in 1 act, mixed with disti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Alfred Delacour Alfred Delacour or Alfred-Charlemagne Delacour, real name Pierre-Alfred Lartigue, (3 September 1817 – 31 March 1883 ) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist. Biography In addition to his occupation as a physician, which he practised from 1841, Delacour turned progressively to the theatre. He collaborated with Eugène Labiche and Clairville for several vaudevilles Titles and decorations * Knight of the Legion of honour (7 August 1867 decree) His entry on the Base Léonore wrongly calls him ''Alfred-Charlemagne'' which was his pen name. Plays ''Le Courrier de Lyon'' (1850) was one of Delacour's noted plays. It was written together with Eugène Moreau and Paul Siraudin. The play was based on the story of Joseph Lesurques, an innocent man who was executed after he was mistaken for the leader of a gang who brutally murdered a courier. Aside from his collaborations with Labiche and Clairville, Delacour also worked with Lambert Thiboust on ''Le diable'' (1880), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Imbroglio In a literary work, film, or other narrative, the plot is the mapping of events in which each one (except the final) affects at least one other through the principle of cause-and-effect. The causal events of a plot can be thought of as a selective collection of events from a narrative, all linked by the connector "and so". Simple plots, such as in a traditional ballad, can be linearly sequenced, but plots can form complex interwoven structures, with each part sometimes referred to as a subplot. Plot is similar in meaning to the term ''storyline''. In the narrative sense, the term highlights important points which have consequences within the story, according to American science fiction writer Ansen Dibell. The premise sets up the plot, the characters take part in events, while the setting is not only part of, but also influences, the final story. An can convolute the plot based on a misunderstanding. The term ''plot'' can also serve as a verb, as part of the craft of writing, re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]