BARRILRE  , TH$ODORE (1823-1877),

French dramatist, was born in Paris in 1823 . He belonged to a family of map engravers which had long been connected with the war department, and spent nine years in that service himself . The success of a vaudeville he had performed at the Beaumarchais and which was immediately snapped up for the repertory of the Palais Royal, showed him his real vocation . During the next thirty years he signed, alone or in collaboration, over a hundred plays; among the most successful were: La Vie de boheme (1849), adapted from Henri Murger's book with the novelist's help; Manon Lescaut (1851); Les Filles de marbre (1853); L'Heritage de Monsieur Plumet (1858); Les Faux Bonshommes (1856) with Ernest Capendu; Malheureux vaincus (1865), which was forbidden by the censor; Le Gascon (1878) . Barriere died in Paris on the 16th of October 1877 . See also Revue des deux mondes (March 1859) .