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HERVIEU, PAUL (1857– )

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HERVIEU, See also:PAUL (1857– ) , See also:French dramatist and novelist, was See also:born at Neuilly (See also:Seine) on the 2nd of See also:November 1857. He was called to the See also:bar in 1877, and, after serving some See also:time in the See also:office of the See also:president of the See also:council, he qualified for the See also:diplomatic service, but resigned on his nomination in 1881 to a secretaryship in the French See also:legation in See also:Mexico. He contributed novels, tales and essays to the See also:chief Parisian papers and reviews, and published a See also:series of See also:clever novels, including L'Inconnu (1887), Flirt ( 189o), L'Exorcisee (1891), Feints See also:par eux-meemes (1893), an ironical study written in the See also:form of letters, and L' See also:Armature (1895), dramatized in 1905 by See also:Eugene See also:Brieux. But his most important See also:work consists of a series of plays: See also:Les Paroles restent (See also:Vaudeville, 17th of November 1892); Les Tenailles (See also:Theatre See also:Francais, 28th of See also:September 1895); La Loi de l'homme (Theatre Frangais, 15th of See also:February 1897); La Course du flambeau (Vaudeville, '7th of See also:April 190r); Point de lendemain (Odeon, 18th of See also:October 1901), a dramatic version of a See also:story by Vivaut See also:Denon; L'Enig:ne (Theatre Francais, 5th of November 'not); Theroigne de Mericourt (Theatre Sarah See also:Bernhardt, 23rd of September 1902); Le Dec/See also:ale (Theatre Frangais,19th of See also:December 1903), and Le Revell (Theatre Francais, r8th of December 1905). These plays are built upon a severely logical method, the mechanism of which is sometimes so evident as to destroy the necessary sense of illusion. The closing words of La Course du flambeau—"Pour ma fille, j'ai tug ma See also:mere " —are an example of his selection of a See also:plot representing an extreme theory. The riddle in L'Engime (staged at See also:Wyndham's Theatre, See also:London, See also:March 1st '902, as See also:Caesar's Wife) is, however, worked out with See also:great See also:art, and Le Dedale, dealing with the obstacles to the remarriage of a divorced woman, is reckoned among the See also:master-pieces of the See also:modern French See also:stage. He was elected to the French See also:Academy in Igoo. See A. Binet, in L'Annee psychologique, vol. x. Hervieu's Thedtre was published by Lemerre (3 vols., 1900-1904).

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