Maurice Desvallières

Ernest George Maurice Lefebvre-Desvallières (3 October 1857 – 23 March 1926) was a 19th-20th-century French playwright.[1][2]

Maurice Lefebvre-Desvallières
Maurice Desvallières (1857-1926)
Born3 October 1857
Paris
Died23 March 1926(1926-03-23) (aged 68)
Paris
OccupationPlaywright

Maurice was the brother of George Desvallières, son of Emile Lefebvre Desvallières and Marie Legouvé (daughter and granddaughter of academicians Ernest Legouvé and Gabriel-Marie Legouvé).

He studied at lycée Condorcet.

He wrote several theatre plays in collaboration with Georges Feydeau.[3]

Works

  • 1879: Le premier bal
  • 1879: Amis d'enfance
  • 1881: On demande un ministre !
  • 1884: Prête-moi ta femme !
  • 1888: Les Fiancés de Loches
  • 1889: L'Affaire Édouard
  • 1890: C'est une femme du monde !
  • 1890: Le Mariage de Barillon, three-act comédie en vaudeville
  • 1894: Le Ruban
  • 1894: L'Hôtel du libre échange
  • 1901: Le truc de Séraphin
  • 1906: Le Fils à papa (adapted into Die keusche Susanne, 1910, and The Girl in the Taxi, 1912)
  • 1920: Seine-Port et ses vieilles maisons
  • 1959: Champignol malgré lui

Filmography

References and sources

References

  1. Larousse
  2. "Maurice Desvallières", Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 29 July 2020
  3. Pronko, pp. 205–209

Sources

  • Pronko, Leonard Cabell (1975). Georges Feydeau. New York: Ungar. ISBN 978-0-8044-2700-5.
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