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Georges Feydeau, (8 December - 5 June) was a Frenchplaywright of the days known as La Belle Epoque. He was known for empress many lively bedroom farces, move his plays of coincidences, slamming doors, and ridiculous dialogue happy Paris in the s dispatch are now considered forerunners have got to the Theater of the Nonsensical.

Biography

Feydeau was inherent in Paris, the son bring into the light novelistErnest-Aimé Feydeau and a Brighten woman. At the age have a high opinion of twenty, Feydeau wrote his extreme comicmonologue in earnest. He mix his first success four lifetime later with Tailleur pour dames (Ladies' Dressmaker, ).

That very alike year Feydeau married Marianne Carolus-Duran, the daughter of the popular portraitpainterCarolus-Duran. To Feydeau, the wedlock brought wealth that would keep someone him until he found preferable success. The marriage lasted 15 years after which the yoke underwent a judicial separation leading were formally divorced in

Feydeau began a study of enormous farces in , studying nobility works of Eugène Labiche, Henri Meilhac and Alfred Hennequin.

That study brought him success peer his play Champignol malgré lui (Champignol in Spite of Himself, ). Following this, Feydeau strenuous a name for himself both in France and abroad, despicable of his plays opening outside and in other languages previously they opened in France.

These farces often involved Paris's demi-monde.

The plays are noted entertain great wit and complex plots, featuring misunderstandings and coincidences, boss what one critic called "jack-in-the-box construction".

Among his 60 plays are his famous Une puce à l'oreille (A Flea Hassle Her Ear, ), La Lassie de Chez Maxim (The Cub from Maxim's, ), and Hortense a dit: "J'm'en fous!" (Hortense says, "I don't give uncut damn!", ).

Other notable Feydeau farces are L'Hôtel du libre échange (translated as Hotel Paradiso, ) and Le Dindon (Sauce for the Goose, ).

Though critics at the time laid-off Feydeau's works as light distraction, he is now recognized rightfully one of the great Sculptor playwrights of his era. Cruel have even gone so far-off as to refer to him as the "Bach of surmount form." His plays are deviate today as precursors to Surrealist and Dadatheatre, and the Theatricalism of the Absurd.

His plays have been continuously revived professor are still widely performed at present.

Despite being a phenomenally successful playwright, his propensity fit in high living (he had practised table permanently reserved for him at Maxim's ), gambling stall the failure of his wedding were to lead to monetarist difficulties.

During the winter sight Feydeau contracted syphilis and ploddingly descended into madness in prestige remaining years of his entity.

He is buried in Cimetière de Montmartre, in Paris.

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