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HERVIEU, PAUL (1857 ) , French dramatist and novelist, was born at Neuilly (Seine) on the 2nd of November 1857. He 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, but resigned on his nomination in 1881 to a secretaryship in the French legation in Mexico
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series of clever novels, including L'Inconnu (1887), Flirt ( 189o), L'Exorcisee (1891), Feints par eux-meemes (1893), an ironical study written in the form of letters, and L' Armature (1895), dramatized in 1905 by Eugene
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series of plays: Les Paroles restent (Vaudeville, 17th of November 1892); Les Tenailles (Theatre Francais, 28th of September 1895); La Loi de l'homme (Theatre Frangais, 15th of February 1897); La Course du flambeau (Vaudeville, '7th of April 190r); Point de lendemain (Odeon, 18th of October 1901), a dramatic version of a story by Vivaut Denon; L'Enig:ne (Theatre Francais, 5th of November 'not); Theroigne de Mericourt (Theatre Sarah Bernhardt, 23rd of September 1902); Le Dec/ale (Theatre Frangais,19th of December 1903), and Le Revell (Theatre Francais, r8th of December 1905). These 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"Pour ma fille, j'ai tug ma mere " are an example of his selection of a plot representing an extreme theory. The riddle in L'Engime (staged at Wyndham 's Theatre, London, March 1st '902, as Caesar's Wife) is, however, worked out with great
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See A. Binet, in L'Annee psychologique, vol. x. Hervieu's Thedtre was published by Lemerre (3 vols., 1900-1904). End of Article: HERVIEU, PAUL (1857 ) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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