EDOUARD JULES

HENRI

See also:

• EDOUARD JULES HENRI PAILLERON (1834-1899)

PAILLERON (1834-1899)  , French poet and dramatist, was born in Paris on the 17th of September 1834 . He was educated for the bar, but after pleading a single case he entered the first dragoon regiment and served for two years . With the artist J . A . Beauce he travelled for some time in northern Africa, and soon after his return to Paris in 186o he produced a volume of satires, Les Parasites, and a one-act piece, Le Parasite, which was represented at the Odeon . He married in 1862 the daughter of Francois Buloz, thus obtaining a share in the proprietorship of the Revue des deux mondes . In 1869 he produced at the Gymnase theatre Les Faux menages, a four-act comedy depending for its interest on the pathetic devotion of the Magdalene of the story . L'Etincelle (1879), a brilliant one-act comedy, secured another success, and in 1881 with Le Monde oft l'on s'ennuie Pailleron produced one of the most strikingly successful pieces of the period . The play ridiculed contemporary academic society, and was filled with transparent allusions to well-known people . None of his subsequent efforts achieved so great a success . Pailleron was elected to the French Academy in 1882, and died on the 20th of April 1899 .