André de Latour, comte de Lorde (1869â€"1942) was a French
playwright, the main author of the Grand Guignol plays from 1901 to
1926. His evening career was as a dramatist of terror; during daytimes
he worked as a librarian in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. He wrote
150 plays, all of them devoted mainly to the exploitation of terror
and insanity, and a few novels. For plays the subject matter of which
concerned mental illness he sometimes collaborated with psychologist
Alfred Binet, the developer of IQ testing.During the 1920s de Lorde
was elected "Prince of Fear" (Prince de la Terreur) by his peers.
playwright, the main author of the Grand Guignol plays from 1901 to
1926. His evening career was as a dramatist of terror; during daytimes
he worked as a librarian in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. He wrote
150 plays, all of them devoted mainly to the exploitation of terror
and insanity, and a few novels. For plays the subject matter of which
concerned mental illness he sometimes collaborated with psychologist
Alfred Binet, the developer of IQ testing.During the 1920s de Lorde
was elected "Prince of Fear" (Prince de la Terreur) by his peers.
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