Henri Léon Emile Lavedan (9 April 1859 â€" 4 September 1940), French
dramatist and man of letters, was born at Orléans, the son of Hubert
Lavedan [fr], a well-known Catholic and liberal journalist.Lavedan
contributed to various Parisian papers a series of witty tales and
dialogues of Parisian life, many of which were collected in volume
form. In 1891 he produced at the Théâtre Français Une Famille,
followed at the Vaudeville in 1894 by Le Prince d'Aurec, a satire on
the nobility, afterward renamed Les Descendants.He had a great success
with Le Duel (Comédie-Française 1905), a powerful psychological
study of the relations of two brothers, which was turned into a
movie--The Duelâ€"on which he was a co-writer. It was translated into
English by Louis N. Parker and performed in New York in 1906 at the
Hudson Theatre.[1]Lavedan was admitted to the Académie française in
1898.
dramatist and man of letters, was born at Orléans, the son of Hubert
Lavedan [fr], a well-known Catholic and liberal journalist.Lavedan
contributed to various Parisian papers a series of witty tales and
dialogues of Parisian life, many of which were collected in volume
form. In 1891 he produced at the Théâtre Français Une Famille,
followed at the Vaudeville in 1894 by Le Prince d'Aurec, a satire on
the nobility, afterward renamed Les Descendants.He had a great success
with Le Duel (Comédie-Française 1905), a powerful psychological
study of the relations of two brothers, which was turned into a
movie--The Duelâ€"on which he was a co-writer. It was translated into
English by Louis N. Parker and performed in New York in 1906 at the
Hudson Theatre.[1]Lavedan was admitted to the Académie française in
1898.
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