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See also:EUGENE See also:BRIEUX (1858– ) , See also:French dramatist, was See also:born in See also:Paris of poor parents on the 19th of See also:January 1858 . A one-See also:act See also:play, See also:Bernard See also:Palissy, written in collaboration with M . Gaston Salandri, was produced in 18i9, but he had to wait eleven years before he obtained another See also:hearing, his See also:Menage d' artistes being produced by See also:Antoine at the See also:Theatre Libre in 1890 . His plays are essentially didactic, being aimed at some weakness or iniquity of the social See also:system . Blanchette (1892) pointed out the evil results of See also:education of girls of the working classes; M. de Rcboval (1892) was directed against pharisaism; L'Engrenage (1894) against corruption in politics; See also:Les Bienfaiteurs (1896) against the frivolity of fashionable charity; and L'Evasion (1896) satirized an indiscriminate belief in the See also:doctrine of See also:heredity . Les Trois Filles de M . See also:Dupont (1897) is a powerful, somewhat brutal, study of the miseries imposed on poor See also:middle-class girls by the Frenchsystem of See also:dowry; Le Resultat See also:des courses (1898) shows the evil results of betting among the Parisian workmen; La Robe See also:rouge (1900) was directed against the injustices of the See also:law; Les Remplacantes (1901) against the practice of putting See also:children out to See also:nurse . Les Avaries (19o1), forbidden by the See also:censor, on See also:account of its medical details, was read privately by the author at the Theatre Antoine; and Petite amie (1902) describes the See also:life of a Parisian See also:shop-girl . Later plays are La Couvee (1903, acted privately at See also:Rouen in 1893), Maternite (1904), La Deserteuse (1904), in collaboration with M . See also:Jean Sigaux, and Les Hannetons, a See also:comedy in three acts (1906) . |
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