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Georges-Léon-Jules-Marie Feydeau (French: [ʒɔʁʒ fɛ.do]; 8 December 1862 – 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the Belle Époque era, remembered for his farces, written between 1886 and 1914. Feydeau was born in Paris to middle-class parents and raised in an artistic and literary environment.
Georges Feydeau, né le 8 décembre 1862 à Paris et mort le 5 juin 1921 à Rueil-Malmaison, est un auteur dramatique, peintre et collectionneur d'œuvres d'art franco-polonais, connu pour ses nombreux vaudevilles.
Jun 1, 2024 · Georges Feydeau (born Dec. 8, 1862, Paris, France—died June 5, 1921, Paris) was a French dramatist whose farces delighted Parisian audiences in the years immediately prior to World War I and are still regularly performed.
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May 29, 2018 · Feydeau was born in Paris in 1862, the son of a novelist who expected his child to become a writer. The younger Feydeau obliged, writing his first comic monologue at the age of...
A Flea in Her Ear (French: La Puce à l'oreille) is a play by Georges Feydeau written in 1907, at the height of the Belle Époque. The author called it a vaudeville, but in Anglophone countries, where it is the most popular of Feydeau's plays, it is usually described as a farce.
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Georges Feydeau. (1862—1921) French dramatist. Quick Reference. (1862–1921) French writer of farces. Feydeau was born in Paris, son of the novelist Ernest Feydeau. He began writing for the theatre in 1881, and over the next thirty-five years produced some forty plays.
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Skillfully manipulating the conventions of vaudeville and farce, Georges Feydeau delighted Parisian audiences in the decades preceding World War I. Precisely staged, his plays are known for their wildly unlikely coincidences, mistaken identities, and misunderstandings.
