HERVIEU, PAUL (1857 )

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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

. He contributed novels, tales and essays to the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

Parisian papers and reviews, and published a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

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

EUGENE

Brieux

BRIEUX, EUGENE (1858– )

. But his most important

work

WORK

consists of a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

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

WYNDHAM, SIR CHARLES (1837— )
WYNDHAM, SIR WILLIAM, BART

's Theatre, London, March 1st '902, as Caesar's Wife) is, however, worked out with

great

GREAT

art, and Le Dedale, dealing with the obstacles to the remarriage of a divorced woman, is reckoned among the master-pieces of the modern French stage. He was elected to the French

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

in Igoo.
See A. Binet, in L'Annee psychologique, vol. x. Hervieu's Thedtre was published by Lemerre (3 vols., 1900-1904).

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