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HENRI LEON SMILE LAVEDAN (1859— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 291 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRI See also:LEON SMILE See also:LAVEDAN (1859— )  , See also:French dramatist and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Orleans, the son of See also:Hubert See also:Leon See also:Lavedan, a well-known See also:Catholic and liberal journalist . He contributed to various Parisian papers a See also:series of witty tales and dialogues of Parisian See also:life, many of which were collected in See also:volume See also:form . In 1891 he produced at the See also:Theatre See also:Francais Une Famille, followed at the See also:Vaudeville in 1894 by Le See also:Prince d'Aurec, a See also:satire on the See also:nobility, afterwards re-named See also:Les Descendants . Later brilliant and witty pieces were Les Deux noblesses (1897), See also:Catherine (1897), Le Nouveau jeu (1898), Le Vieux marcheur (1899), Le See also:Marquis de Priola (1902), and Varennes (1904), written in collaboration with G . Lenotre . He had a See also:great success with Le See also:Duel (Comedic Francaise, 1905), a powerful psychological study of the relations of two See also:brothers . Lavedan was admitted to the French See also:Academy in 1898 .

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