- Édouard Pailleron
Édouard Jules Henri Pailleron (
September 7 ,1834 -April 20 ,1899 ) was a Frenchpoet anddramatist .Biography
Born in
Paris , he was educated for the bar, but after pleading a single case he entered the firstdragoon regiment and served for two years. With the artist JA Beaucé, he travelled for some time inNorth Africa , and soon after his return to Paris in 1860 he produced a volume ofsatire s, "Les Parasites", and a one-act piece, "Le Parasite", which was represented at theOdéon . He married the daughter ofFrançois Buloz in 1862, thus obtaining a share in the proprietorship of the "Revue des deux mondes ".In 1869, he produced the Gymnase theatre's "Les Faux ménages", a four act comedy depending for its interest on the pathetic devotion of the Magdalene of the story. "L'Étincelle" (1879), a brilliant one-act comedy, secured another success, and in 1881 with "Le Monde où l'on s'amuse" Pailleron produced one of the most strikingly successful pieces of the period. The play ridiculed contemporary academic society, and was filled with transparent allusions to well-known people. None of his subsequent efforts achieved so great a success. Pailleron was elected to the
Académie française in 1882.In France, his name became sadly famous again in the seventies because it was given to a French school in Paris which was destroyed by a fire on
February 6 ,1973 , killing 21 children.References
*1911 The aricle is available here: [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Edouard_Jules_Henri_Pailleron]
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