Eugène Marcel Prévost (1 May 18628 April 1941) was a French author and

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Biography

Prévost was born in Paris on 1 May 1862, and educated at

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schools in

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and Paris, entering the

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in 1882. He published a story in the '' Le Clairon'' as early as 1881, but for some years after the completion of his studies he applied his technical knowledge to the manufacture of

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. He published in succession, ''Le Scorpion'' (1887), ''Chonchette'' (1888), ''Mademoiselle Jaufre'' (1889), ''Cousine Laura'' (1890), ''La Confession d'un amant'' (1891), ''Lettres de femmes'' (1892), ''L'Automne d'une femme'' (1893), and in 1894 he made a great sensation by a study of the results of Parisian education and Parisian society on young girls, ''Les Demi-vierges'', which was dramatized and produced with great success at the Gymnase on 21 May 1895. ''Le Jardin secret'' appeared in 1897; and in 1900 ''Les Vierges fortes'', and a study of the question of women's education and independence in two novels ''Frédérique'' and ''Léa''. ''L'Heureux ménage'' (1901), ''Les Lettres à Françoise'' (1902), ''La Princesse d'Erminge'' (1904), and ''L'Accordeur aveugle'' (1905) are among his later novels. A picture of modern German manners is given in his ''Monsieur et Madame Moloch'' (1906). He had a great success in 1904 with a four-act play ''La Plus faible'', produced at the Comédie-Française. Prévost was elected to the

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in 1909. He died on 8 April 1941, aged 78.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Prevost, Marcel 1862 births 1941 deaths Writers from Paris Members of the Académie Française École Polytechnique alumni French male writers