Alfred Capus

Alfred Capus , born with Aix-en-Provence the November 25th 1857 and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on November 1st 1922, is a journalist, novelist and playwright French.

Wire of a lawyer Marseilles, Alfred Capus made his secondary studies with Toulon. Having failed the contest of the Polytechnic school, it entered to the École des Mines but did not obtain its Diplôme. After having been a time Draftsman, it was directed towards the Journalisme. One of the first articles which it made appear carried the mark of its scientific formation, since it was about a Nécrologie of Darwin. But it is especially by its slightly whimsical chronicles, published in the Gaulois , in the Echo of Paris and in the Illustration which it was made known. He also wrote several articles for Le Figaro , under the pseudonym of “Graindorge”. With died of Gaston Calmette, in 1914, Capus became editor association of the Figaro . At this station, it wrote with largest Patriotisme, during the four years of the Great War, the daily “bulletin”.

Previously it had launched out, parallel to the Journalisme, in the Littérature, with a series of Romance. But it is with the Théâtre that it gave the full measurement of its talent with light comedies putting in scene manners of the Belle Time.

Called with the presidency of the Company of the Men of letters, commander of the Legion of honor, Alfred Capus were elected with the French Academy the February 12th 1914, by 16 vote, with the armchair of Henri Poincaré. An anecdote wants that one of its interpreters having asked a pedestal table if Capus would enter one day to the French Academy, the pedestal table answered by the affirmative; when one asked him then how much time it should arise, the piece of furniture started to beat blows if repeated that it had to be stopped.

Alfred Capus had indeed undergone two failures, against Eugene Brieux with the armchair of Ludovic Halévy in 1909, and against Denys Cochin with the armchair of Albert Vandal in 1911, but the “immortal ones” could pay homage to him: Robert de Flers known as of its repertory of the comedies which it was “one of prides more some and rarest of the French scene”. As for Edouard Estaunié, which pronounced its praise while succeeding to him, he spoke about it as about a “benevolent philosopher whose irony frequently incisor but never afflicting is dissipated in smiling”. Alfred Capus was accepted on June 28th 1917 by Maurice Donnay.

Its works

; Theater

Brignol and his/her daughter (1895)
the Vein (1900)
the Two schools (1902)
the Lady of the manor (created by Lucien Guitry the same year)
Our youth (gone up to the Comédie-Française in 1904)
Mr Piégeois (1905)
Momentary the (1906)
the Two men (1908)
the Adventurer (1910)

; Novels

Which loses gains (1890) “almost a Chef-d'oeuvre”, with the dires of Jules Lemaître
False start (1891)
Robinson (1910)

Quotations

Certain men speak during their sleep. There are hardly but the lecturers to speak during the sleep about the others.
It is easier to see than one rather wants than to seek the truth.
It is necessary to dream very high not to realize too low.
The death of an academician is undoubtedly a serious event, it is not a sad event. wants to laugh ''
One is stolen with the Stock Exchange as one is killed with the war, by people whom one does not see. purse or the life ''
If we lose the irony, it is not the beauty which would replace it, it would be the silly thing.
All the truths are good to say, but it is we who all are not good to hear them.
A being is never loved but for the idea that another is done of him. -->

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