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Georges-Léon-Jules-Marie Feydeau was a French playwright of the Belle Époque era, remembered for his farces, written between 1886 and 1914.
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culture · French playwright (1862–1921) · playwright · writer · also Georges Feydeau, Feydeau, Georges, Feydeau
Born 8 December 1862 · Died 5 June 1921 · Q49465
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“When I sit down to write a play I identify those characters who have every reason to avoid each other; and I make it my business to bring them together as soon, and as often, as I can.”
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Moldpres: Premiere of play by Georges Feydeau to take place at Chisinau-based theatre
La Voix du Nord: georges feydeau
ActuaLitté: Réussir son Bac de français 2025 : Analyse de la pièce L'Hôtel du Libre-Échange de Georges Feydeau
Le Temps: Champion absolu du quiproquo, Georges Feydeau s’échappe dans un roman jubilatoire de Thierry Thomas
ActuaLitté: Georges Feydeau, Bac de français
Le Monde.fr: Le petit-fils de Georges Feydeau
Libération: Georges Feydeau: «Si vous voulez savoir le fond de ma nature, c'est la paresse!»
Le Figaro: Georges Feydeau, une merveilleuse folie
And the West End in 1956, playing in the original French and gaining enthusiastic reviews from the New York and London critics
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Renaud starred in the first production of Occupe-toi d'Amélie
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With a production of the one-act Feu la mère de Madame, directed by Fernand Ledoux, starring Madeleine Renaud and Pierre Bertin
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Died 1921-06-05.
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Other writers and directors began to take his plays as the basis for films, of which more than twenty have been made, in several countries and languages
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“le mariage, c'est l'art pour deux personnes de vivre ensemble aussi heureuses qu'elles auraient vécu chacune de leur côté”
His mental condition deteriorated sharply and he spent his final two years in a sanatorium at Rueil (now Rueil-Malmaison), near Paris
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And in 1918, now aged fifty-five, he embarked on an affair with a young dancer, Odette Darthys, whom he cast in the lead in revivals of his plays
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1913).
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After a particularly acrimonious quarrel, Feydeau left home and moved into the Hotel Terminus in the Rue Saint-Lazare
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With the composer Alfred Kaiser on a serious romantic opera, Le Billet de Joséphine, was not a success, closing after 16 performances
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Had to sell some of his valuable art collection; his wife was said to have become bitter and spendthrift
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1894).
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Feydeau collaborated with Desvallières on Le Ruban (The ribbon), a comedy about a man desperately manoeuvring for appointment to the Légion d'honneur
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Wrote two plays that restored his reputation and fortune
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Feydeau took a break from writing and made a study of the works of the leading comic playwrights, particularly Eugène Labiche, Alfred Hennequin and Meilhac
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Feydeau married Marie-Anne, the daughter of Carolus-Duran, a prosperous portrait painter
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Feydeau completed his formal education at the Lycée Saint-Louis, and was engaged as a clerk in a law firm
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The family left Paris for Boulogne-sur-Mer
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Born 1862-12-08.
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Was a forty-year-old childless widower and she was twenty-two
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