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Maurice Desvallières

French playwright (1857–1926) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Maurice Desvallières
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Ernest George Maurice Lefebvre-Desvallières (3 October 1857 – 23 March 1926) was a 19th–20th-century French playwright.[1][2]

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Maurice was the brother of George Desvallières, son of Emile Lefebvre Desvallières and Marie Legouvé (daughter and granddaughter of academicians Ernest Legouvé and Gabriel-Marie Legouvé).[citation needed]

He studied at lycée Condorcet.[citation needed]

He wrote several theatre plays in collaboration with Georges Feydeau.[3]

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Works

  • 1879: Le premier bal
  • 1879: Amis d'enfance
  • 1881: On demande un ministre !
  • 1884: Prête-moi ta femme !
  • 1888: Les Fiancés de Loches (with Georges Feydeau)
  • 1889: L'Affaire Édouard
  • 1890: C'est une femme du monde ! (with Feydeau)
  • 1890: Le Mariage de Barillon, three-act comédie en vaudeville (with Feydeau)
  • 1892: Champignol malgré lui (with Feydeau)
  • 1894: Le Ruban (with Feydeau)
  • 1894: L'Hôtel du libre échange (with Feydeau)
  • 1901: Le truc de Séraphin
  • 1906: Le Fils à papa (adapted into Die keusche Susanne, 1910, and The Girl in the Taxi, 1912)
  • 1920: Seine-Port et ses vieilles maisons


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Filmography

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