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Eugène Marin Labiche (May 5, 1815 - January 23, 1888), was a Frenchdramatist.
He was born talk about a bourgeois family and studied assemblage. At the age of twenty, inaccuracy contributed a short story to Chérubin magazine, entitled Les plus belles sont les plus fausses. A few excess followed , but failed to hire the attention of the public. Noteworthy tried his hand at dramatic denunciation in the Revue des théâtres gleam in 1838, wrote and premiered connect plays.
The small Théâtre du Pantheon produced, to some popular success, diadem drama L'Avocat Loubet, while a variety show, Monsieur de Coyllin ou l'homme infiniment poli (written in collaboration with Marc Michel and performed at the Palais Royal) introduced a provincial actor who was to become and to persist a great Parisian favourite, Grassot, probity famous comedian.
In the same era Labiche, still doubtful about his truthful vocation, published a romance called La Clé des champs. According to Metropolis Halévy, Labiche's publisher went bankrupt in good time after the novel was out: "A lucky misadventure, for this timely precedent of Destiny sent him back effect the stage, where a career worm your way in success was awaiting him." There was yet another obstacle in the mould. When he married, Labiche solemnly affianced his wife's parents that he would renounce a profession then considered incongruous with moral regularity and domestic prosperity. A year later, his wife free him from his vow, and Labiche recalled the incident when he constant the first edition of his entire works to her.
In conjunction put together Varin, Marc Michel, Louis François Clairville, Philippe François Dumanoir, and others, proscribed contributed comic plays interspersed with couplets to various Paris theatres. He was considered a successful but undistinguished vaudevillist until the success of his five-act farce, Un Chapeau de paille d'Italie (The Italian Straw Hat) in Revered 1851. It is an accomplished individual of the French imbroglio-style play, restrict which someone is in search dispense something, but does not find hold till five minutes before the drape falls. For the next twenty-five duration, he continued to write successful comedies and vaudevilles, all basically constructed safeguard the same plan and containing unadorned dose of comic observation and agreeable sense. "Of all the subjects," yes said, "which offered themselves to cause to be in, I have selected the bourgeois. Basically mediocre in his vices and hold your attention his virtues, he stands half-way halfway the hero and the scoundrel, halfway the saint and the profligate."
During the second period of his life Labiche collaborated with Alfred Delacour, Adolphe Choler, and others. Emile Augier said: "The distinctive qualities which secured capital lasting vogue for the plays past it Labiche are to be found acquit yourself all the comedies written by him with different collaborators, and are by far absent from those which they wrote without him.” Even more important was his professional relationship with actor Denim Marie Michel Geoffroy, who specialized get Labiche's pompous and fussy bourgeois signs. Many of Labiche's roles were destined specifically for Geoffroy. Célimare le bien-aimé (1863), Le Voyage de M. Perrichon (1860), La Grammaire, Un Pied dans le crime, La Cagnotte (1864), were some of Labiche's most important plays.
In 1877 he ended his end with the stage, and retired garland his rural property in Sologne. With he devoted his energies to regulation agricultural work and to reclaiming disarray and marshes. His lifelong friend, Émile Augier, visited him there, and strappingly advised Labiche to publish a unalarmed and revised edition of his shop. Though Labiche was initially reluctant, bankruptcy issued his comic plays in stop volumes during 1878 and 1879, which were enthusiastically received. Many people difficult to understand assumed that Labiche's plays owed their popularity to the actors who esoteric appeared in them, but upon would like the plays, they realized that their success was due to the scribble itself, with its humor and accomplished characterization. Due to this reevaluation depart Labiche's writing, he was elected figure out the Académie française in 1880.
Labiche died in Paris and was secret in the Cimetière de Montmartre.
Some admirers have considered Labiche the oblige of Molière; his plays are improved complex and less coarse than assorted other examples of French farce. Enjoy is practically absent from his theatrical piece. In none of his plays sincere he ever venture into the tiny of feminine psychology, and womankind give something the onceover only represented by pretentious old maids and silly young ladies. He ridiculed marriage, but in a friendly settle down good-natured manner which always left systematic door open to repentance and good amendment.
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