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PAUL HERVIEU (1857– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 405 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAUL See also:HERVIEU (1857– )  , See also:French dramatist and novelist, was See also:born at Neuilly (See also:Seine) on the 2nd of See also:November 1857 . He was called to the See also:bar in 1877, and, after serving some See also:time in the See also:office of the See also:president of the See also:council, he qualified for the See also:diplomatic service, but resigned on his nomination in 1881 to a secretaryship in the French See also:legation in See also:Mexico . He contributed novels, tales and essays to the See also:chief Parisian papers and reviews, and published a See also:series of See also:clever novels, including L'Inconnu (1887), Flirt ( 189o), L'Exorcisee (1891), Feints See also:par eux-meemes (1893), an ironical study written in the See also:form of letters, and L' See also:Armature (1895), dramatized in 1905 by See also:Eugene See also:Brieux . But his most important See also:work consists of a series of plays: See also:Les Paroles restent (See also:Vaudeville, 17th of November 1892); Les Tenailles (See also:Theatre See also:Francais, 28th of See also:September 1895); La Loi de l'homme (Theatre Frangais, 15th of See also:February 1897); La Course du flambeau (Vaudeville, '7th of See also:April 190r); Point de lendemain (Odeon, 18th of See also:October 1901), a dramatic version of a See also:story by Vivaut See also:Denon; L'Enig:ne (Theatre Francais, 5th of November 'not); Theroigne de Mericourt (Theatre Sarah See also:Bernhardt, 23rd of September 1902); Le Dec/See also:ale (Theatre Frangais,19th of See also:December 1903), and Le Revell (Theatre Francais, r8th of December 1905) . These plays are built upon a severely logical method, the mechanism of which is sometimes so evident as to destroy the necessary sense of illusion . The closing words of La Course du flambeau—"Pour ma fille, j'ai tug ma See also:mere " —are an example of his selection of a See also:plot representing an extreme theory . The riddle in L'Engime (staged at See also:Wyndham's Theatre, See also:London, See also:March 1st '902, as See also:Caesar's Wife) is, however, worked out with See also:great See also:art, and Le Dedale, dealing with the obstacles to the remarriage of a divorced woman, is reckoned among the See also:master-pieces of the See also:modern French See also:stage . He was elected to the French See also:Academy in Igoo . See A . Binet, in L'Annee psychologique, vol. x . See also:Hervieu's Thedtre was published by Lemerre (3 vols., 1900-1904) .

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