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MIRBEAU, OCTAVE HENRI MARIE (1850- )

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MIRBEAU, See also:OCTAVE See also:HENRI See also:MARIE (1850- ) , See also:French dramatist and journalist, was See also:born at Trevieres (See also:Calvados) on the 16th of See also:February i85o. He was educated in a Jesuit school at See also:Vannes, and studied See also:law in See also:Paris. He began his journalistic career as dramatic critic of the Bonapartist See also:paper, L'Ordre. For a See also:short See also:time before 1877 he was sous-prefet and then prefet of See also:Saint-Girons, but from that time he devoted himself to literature. He was one of the earliest defenders of the Impressionist painters. His witty articles in the See also:anti-republican papers, and his attacks on established reputations, involved him in more than one See also:duel. He gradually See also:developed extreme individualist views. In 1890 he began to write for the Revolte, but his anarchist sympathies were definitely checked by the See also:murder of See also:resident See also:Carnot in 1894. He was one of the See also:early and consistent defenders of See also:Captain See also:Alfred See also:Dreyfus. He married in 1887 the actress Alice See also:Regnault. His first novel, See also:Jean Marcellin (1885), attracted little See also:attention, but he made his See also:mark as a conteur with a See also:series of tales of the See also:Norman peasantry, Lettres de ma chaumiere (1886). Le Calvaire (1887), a See also:chapter of which on the defeat of 1870 aroused much discussion, was followed by L'See also:Abbe Jules (1888), the See also:story of a mad See also:priest; by Sebastien See also:Roch (189o), a See also:bitter picture of the Jesuit school in which his own early years were spent; Le Jardin See also:des supplices (1899), a See also:Chinese story; See also:Les Memoires d'une femme de chambre (1901); and Les Vingt-et-un jours d'un neurasthenique (1902).

In 1897 his five-See also:

act piece, Les Mauvais Bergers, was played at the See also:Renaissance by Sarah See also:Bernhardt, and he followed this up with Les Affaires sont les affaires (See also:Theatre See also:Francais, 1903), which was adapted by See also:Sydney See also:Grundy for See also:Sir H. Beerbohm See also:Tree in 1905. Some of his short pieces are collected as Farces et moralites (1904).

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