Henri L�on Emile Lavedan
Henri L�on Emile Lavedan (
April 9,
1859-
September 30,
1940),
French dramatist and man of letters, was born at
Orleans, the son of Hubert L�on Lavedan, a well-known
Catholic and
liberal journalist.
He 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 Th��tre Fran�ais Une Famille, followed at the Vaudeville in 1894 by Le Prince d'Aurec, a satire on the nobility, afterward re-named Les Descendants.
Later brilliant and witty pieces were:
- Les Deux noblesses (1897)
- Catherine (1897)
- Le nouveau jeu (1898)
- Le Vieux marcheur (1899)
- Le Marquis de Priola (1902)
- Varennes (1904), written in collaboration with G Lentre
- Le bon temps (1906)
- L�assassinat du duc de Guise (1908)
He had a great success with
Le Duel (Comedie Fran�aise 1905), a powerful psychological study of the relations of two brothers. Lavedan was admitted to the
Acad�mie fran�aise in
1898.