Emile Augier

Guillaume Victor Emile Augier , born the September 17th 1820 with Valence and dead the October 25th 1889 with the Croissy-on-Seine, is a poet and playwright French.

Biography

Grandson of the novelist Guillaume Pigault-Lebrun, Emile Augier is born in Valence in a medium from good middle-class right-thinking person. He receives a neat education and when its family settles in Paris in 1828, he continues brilliant studies with the Lycée Henri-Iv, where he has like school-fellow the Duc of Aumale, then with the Faculty of Law and intends himself initially for the bar, while outlining plays. In 1844, its drama the conium , refused by the Comédie-Française, has an enormous success with the Odéon.

This thundering beginning lance its dramatic career, which is consequently punctuated great successes. He is elected with the French Academy in 1857. In 1862, the son of Giboyer , which tackles the clericalism, is exploited only the personal intervention of Napoleon III. Its last comedy, Fourchambault , is played in 1879.

An imposing monument, where Emile Augier is reproduced in 6 meters height on a stone base surrounded by Muses, is inaugurated in 1897 with Valence. It is destroyed in 1942, during the Second world war, when metal constituting the statues is requisitioned by the German occupants.

Works

  • the Player of Flute , modern Greek pastiche

  • Adventurous the

Comedies of manners

  • Gabrielle

  • the Marriage of Olympe
  • gilded Belt
  • poor Men
  • a good match
  • Main Guerin
  • Mrs Caverlet
  • Fourchambault .

Its social and political concerns are more particularly noticed in the Son-in-law of Mr Poirier , his greater success, Shameless the , the Son of Giboyer , Lions and Renards , the Touchstone , the Contagion , Paul Forestier , Jean de Thommeray .

Decorations

Sources

  • Strong Henry of Champris: Emile Augier and the social comedy . Réimpr. ED. from Paris, 1910. Geneva: Slatkine Repr., 1973.
  • Pierre Danger: Emile Augier or the theater of ambiguity: elements for a moral archeology of the middle-class under the second empire . Paris: Harmattan, 1998. ISBN 2-7384-6330-4
  • Studies drômoises n° 1-2 1995, re-examined published by the university association of studies drômoises.

External bonds

  • Card of the French Academy
  • the green Dress: text with agreements and list of frequency

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