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CAPUS, ALFRED (1858– )

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CAPUS, ALFRED (1858– )

CAPUS, See also:
ALFRED
ALFRED (1858– ) , See also:

French author, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

AIX

Aix, in See also:

PROVENCE (Provincia, Proenza)

Provence, on the 25th of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1858. In 1878 he published, in collaboration with L. Vonoven, a See also:

VOLUME

volume of See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short stories, and in the next See also:

YEAR

year the two produced a one-See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act piece, Le Mari malgre lui, at the See also:

THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

Theatre See also:

CLUNY, or CLUGNY

Cluny. He had been educated as an engineer, but became a journalist, and joined the See also:

STAFF (O. Eng. staef, cf. Du. staf, Ger. Stab, &c.; Icel. stafr meant also a written letter, and O. Eng. stafas, the letters of the alphabet; " stave," one of the thin pieces of wood of which a cask is made, is a doublet)

staff of the See also:

FIGARO

Figaro in 1894. His novels, Qui perd gagne (189o), Faux Depart (1891), See also:

Anne-es d'aventures (1895), which belong to this See also:

period, describe the struggles of three See also:

young men at the beginning of their career. From the first of these he took his first See also:

COMEDY

comedy, Brignol et sa fihe (See also:

VAUDEVILLE

Vaudeville, 23rd November 1894). Among his later plays are See also:

Innocent (1896), written with See also:

ALPHONSE, COUNT OF TOULOUSE AND OF POITIERS (I220-1271)

Alphonse Allais; Petites folles (1897); Rosine (1897); Mariage See also:

bourgeois (1898); See also:

LES

Les See also:

MARIS, JACOB (1837-1899)

Maris de Leontine (1900); La See also:

BOURSE (from the Med. Lat. bursa, a purse)

Bourse ou la See also:

VIE

vie (190o); La Veine (1901); La Petite Fonctionnaire (1901); Les Deux Ecoles (1902); La Chdtelaine(19o2); L'Adversaire (1903), with See also:

EMMANUEL, or IMMANUEL

Emmanuel Arene, which was produced in See also:

LONDON

London by Mr See also:

George See also:

Alexander as The See also:

Man of the Moment, and Notre Jeunesse (1904), the first of his plays to be represented at the Theatre See also:

FRANCAIS, ANTOINE, COUNT (1756-1836)

Francais; See also:

MONSIEUR (Fr., formed from men, my, and sieur, lord)

Monsieur Piegois (1905); and, in collaboration with Lucien Descaves, L' Attentat (1906). See Edouard Quet, Alfred Ca pus (1904), with appreciations by various authors, in the See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of Celebrites d'aujourd'hui.

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