Émile Fabre

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Émile Fabre in 1917

Émile Fabre (24 March 1869 in Metz, France – 25 September 1955 in Paris) was a French playwright and general administrator of the Comédie-Française from 2 December 1915 to 15 October 1936. He was greatly influenced by Balzac as a young man, and most of his best known plays deal with the sacrifice of personal happiness to the pursuit of wealth.^[1] He also wrote the libretto for Xavier Leroux's opera Les cadeaux de Noël (The Christmas Gifts) which was a great success when it premiered in Paris in 1915.^[2]

Plays

Fabre's plays include:^[1]

L'Argent (Money), 1895
La Vie publique (Public Life), 1901
Les Ventres dorés (Gilded Stomachs), 1905
Les Sauterelles (The Locusts), 1911

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Garreau, Joseph E. (1984). "Fabre, Émile" in Stanley Hochman (ed.) McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, Vol. 1, p. 136. ISBN 0070791694
↑ Le Figaro (13 April 1917). "Courrier des Théâtres", p. 4 (French)

Authority control	VIAF: 49275184 ISNI: 0000 0000 6645 1892 BNF: cb12211654t Léonore: 19800035/140/17788

Persondata
Name	Fabre, Émile
Alternative names
Short description	French playwright
Date of birth	24 March 1869
Place of birth	Metz, France
Date of death	25 September 1955
Place of death	Paris, France

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