Alfred Capus

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Alfred Capus (25 November 1858<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>A few sources state 1857, but the majority state 1858</ref>Template:Snd1 November 1922) was a French journalist and playwright, who was born in Aix-en-Provence and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

BiographyEdit

Son of a lawyer from Marseille, Alfred Capus went to university in Toulon. After failing several entrance tests for higher-education schools and working as a draughtsman for a while, he went on to become a journalist.

One of his first articles was an obituary of Darwin.<ref>Barrett H. Clark (1915), Contemporary French Dramatists, Stewart & Kidd Company, Cincinnati, page 139</ref> He went on to write humorous pieces for papers such as Gaulois, L'Écho de Paris and L'Illustration. He also wrote for Le Figaro, under the penname of Graindorge. In 1914, he became the editor of Figaro. During the First World War he wrote stridently patriotic pieces.Template:Citation needed

On 12 February 1914, he became a member of the Académie française.

Work and themesEdit

In 1878, in collaboration with L. Vonoven, he published a volume of short stories; the next year the two produced a one-act piece, Le Mari malgre lui, at the Théâtre Cluny.<ref name="EB1911">{{#if: |

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His novels, Qui perd gagne (1890), Faux Depart (1891), Année des d'aventures (1895), describe the struggles of three young men at the beginning of their career. From the first of these he took his first comedy, Brignol et sa fille (Vaudeville, November 23, 1894).<ref name="EB1911"/>

The German film Leontine's Husbands, released in 1928 and starring Claire Rommer, Georg Alexander, Adele Sandrock and Truus van Aalten, was adapted from Capus' 1900 comedy Les Maris de Leontine.

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PlaysEdit

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NovelsEdit

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