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PAILLERON, EDOUARD JULES See also:HENRI (1834-1899) , See also:French poet and dramatist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 17th of See also:September 1834. He was educated for the See also:bar, but after See also:pleading a single See also:case he entered the first See also:dragoon See also:regiment and served for two years. With the artist J. A. See also:Beauce he travelled for some See also:time in See also:northern See also:Africa, and soon after his return to Paris in 186o he produced a See also:volume of satires, See also:Les Parasites, and a one-See also:act piece, Le See also:Parasite, which was represented at the Odeon. He married in 1862 the daughter of See also:Francois Buloz, thus obtaining a See also:share in the proprietorship of the Revue See also:des deux mondes. In 1869 he produced at the Gymnase See also:theatre Les Faux menages, a four-act See also:comedy depending for its See also:interest on the pathetic devotion of the Magdalene of the See also:story. L'Etincelle (1879), a brilliant one-act comedy, secured another success, and in 1881 with Le Monde oft l'on s'ennuie Pailleron produced one of the most strikingly successful pieces of the See also:period. The See also:play ridiculed contemporary See also:academic society, and was filled with transparent allusions to well-known See also:people. None of his subsequent efforts achieved so See also:great a success. Pailleron was elected to the French See also:Academy in 1882, and died on the 20th of See also:April 1899.

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