Alfred Capus (25 November 1858[1][2]–1 November 1922) was a French journalist and playwright, who was born in Aix-en-Provence and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
French journalist and playwright
Biography
Son of a lawyer from Marseille, Alfred Capus went to university in Toulon. After failing several entrance tests for higher-education schools and working as a draughtsman for a while, he went on to become a journalist.
One of his first articles was an obituary of Darwin.[3] He went on to write humorous pieces for papers such as Gaulois, L'Écho de Paris and L'Illustration. He also wrote for Le Figaro, under the penname of Graindorge. In 1914, he became the editor of Figaro. During the First World War he wrote stridently patriotic pieces.[citation needed]
On 12 February 1914, he became a member of the Académie française.
Work and themes
In 1878, in collaboration with L. Vonoven, he published a volume of short stories; the next year the two produced a one-act piece, Le Mari malgre lui, at the Théâtre Cluny.[4]
His novels, Qui perd gagne (1890), Faux Depart (1891), Année des d'aventures (1895), describe the struggles of three young men at the beginning of their career. From the first of these he took his first comedy, Brignol et sa fille (Vaudeville, November 23, 1894).[4]
The German film Leontine's Husbands, released in 1928 and starring Claire Rommer, Georg Alexander, Adele Sandrock and Truus van Aalten, was adapted from Capus' 1900 comedy Les Maris de Leontine.
Schwob, Marcel; John Alden Green (1985). Correspondance inédite. Vol.233 of Histoire des idʹees et critique littéraire. Librairie Droz. ISBN2-600-03614-8.
A few sources state 1857, but the majority state 1858
Barrett H. Clark (1915), Contemporary French Dramatists, Stewart & Kidd Company, Cincinnati, page 139
One or more of the preceding sentencesincorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Capus, Alfred". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.5 (11thed.). Cambridge University Press. p.296. This cites Édouard Quet, Alfred Capus (1904), with appreciations by various authors, in the series of Célébrités d'aujourd'hui.
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