Edouard Bourdet
Encyclopedia
Édouard Bourdet was a French
playwright
.
Bourdet was born at Saint-Germain-en-Laye
, France
, and died in Paris
.
He was married to the poet, Catherine Pozzi
; their son was Claude Bourdet
.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
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Bourdet was born at Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris from the centre.Inhabitants are called Saint-Germanois...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, and died in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
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He was married to the poet, Catherine Pozzi
Catherine Pozzi
Catherine Marthe Louise Pozzi was a French poet and woman of letters.-Life:Catherine Pozzi was born in an aristocratic and bourgeois environment at the end of the 19th century, to Samuel Pozzi, surgeon and gynecologist, and Thérèse Loth-Cazalis...
; their son was Claude Bourdet
Claude Bourdet
Claude Bourdet , son of the dramatic author Édouard Bourdet, was a writer, journalist, polemist, and a militant French politician, who was born in 1909 and died in 1996 in Paris. He was a son of the poet Catherine Pozzi....
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Plays
- 1910 : Le Rubicon
- 1922 : L'Heure du berger
- 1923 : L'homme enchaîné
- 1926 : La prisonnière, played in London, New York and Vienna.
- 1927 : Vient de paraître
- 1929 : Le Sexe faible, which was prominently displayed for a long period at the Théâtre de la Michodière and was also presented in Berlin
- 1932 : La Fleur des pois
- 1934 : Les Temps difficiles, resumed at the Théâtre du Vieux-ColombierThéâtre du Vieux-ColombierThe Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier is a theatre located at 21, rue du Vieux-Colombier, in the 6th arrondissement in Paris. It was founded in 1913 by the theatre producer and playwright Jacques Copeau...
(Comédie-Française) from 22 November to 30 December 2006, arranged by Jean-Claude Berruti - 1936 : Fric-Frac
- 1942 : Père
- 1941 : Hyménée