Léon Laya

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Léon Laya (c.1810, Paris - 5 September 1872, Paris) was a French playwright. He was the son of the académicien Jean-Louis Laya.

Léon Laya was the author of a number of successful comedies, alternating between the delicacy or purity of the idea and the vivacity of the form : Une Maîtresse anonyme, in 2 acts (1812) ; la Peau du lion, in 2 acts (1814)  ; les Cœurs d’or, in 3 acts, with Prémaray (Gymnase, 1854)  ; les Jeunes gens, in 3 acts, free and independent adaptation of Terence's Adelphoe (Théâtre-Français, 1855)  ; le duc Job, in 4 acts, one of the most sustained successes of the Théâtre-Français (1859) ; la Loi du cœur (Théâtre-Français, 1862), etc.

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  • Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des littératures, Paris, Hachette, 1876, p. 1209
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