AUGUSTIN See also:

• EUGENE

EUGENE See also:

• AUGUSTIN EUGENE SCRIBE (1791-1860, French dramatist, was born in Paris on the 24th of December 1791. His father was a silk merchant, and he was well educated, being destined for the bar. But, having a real gift for the theatre, a gift which unfortunately

SCRIBE (1791-1860, See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French dramatist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on the 24th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1791. His See also:

• FATHER

father was a See also:

• SILK

silk See also:

• MERCHANT (O. Fr. marcheant, modern marchand; from Lat. mercari, to trade, merx, goods, merchandise)

merchant, and he was well educated, being destined for the See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar. But, having a real See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift for the See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre, a gift which unfortunately  was not allied with a corresponding See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power, he very soon began to write for the See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage . His first piece, Le Pretendu sans le savoir, was produced without his name at the Varietes in 181o, and was a failure . Numerous other plays, written in collaboration with various authors, followed; but See also:

• SCRIBE, AUGUSTIN EUGENE (1791-1860, French dramatist, was born in Paris on the 24th of December 1791. His father was a silk merchant, and he was well educated, being destined for the bar. But, having a real gift for the theatre, a gift which unfortunately

Scribe achieved no distinct success till 1815, when Une Nuit de la garde nationale, written in collaboration with Delestre-Poirson, made him famous . Thenceforward his fertility was unceasing and its results prodigious . He wrote every See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama—. vaudevilles, comedies, tragedies, See also:

• OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera-libretti . To the Gymnase See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre alone he is said to have furnished a See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred and fifty pieces before 183o . This extraordinary fecundity is explained by the systematic methods of collaboration which he established . He had a number of co-workers, one of whom supplied the See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story, another the See also:

• DIALOGUE

dialogue, a third the jokes and so on . He is said in some cases to have sent sums of See also:

• MONEY

money for " See also:

• COPYRIGHT

copyright in ideas " to men who were unaware that he had taken suggestions from their See also:

• WORK

work . Among his collaborators were See also:

• JEAN

Jean See also:

• HENRI

Henri See also:

• DUPIN, ANDRE MARIE JEAN JACQUES (1783-1865)

Dupin (1787-1887), Germain See also:

• DELAVIGNE, JEAN FRANCOIS CASIMIR (1793-1843)

Delavigne, Delestre-Poirson, Melesville (A . H . J .

See also:

• DUVEYRIER, HENRI (184o-1892)

Duveyrier), Marc-See also:

• ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

Antoine Desaugiers, See also:

• XAVIER, FRANCISCO DE (1506-1552)

Xavier See also:

• SAINTINE, JOSEPH XAVIER (1798-1865)

Saintine and See also:

• GABRIEL (Heb. SKns, man of God)

Gabriel See also:

• LEGOUVE, GABRIEL JEAN BAPTISTE ERNEST WILFRID (1807–1903)

Legouve . His debut in serious See also:

• COMEDY

comedy was made at the Theatre See also:

• FRANCAIS, ANTOINE, COUNT (1756-1836)

Francais in 1822 with Valerie, the first of many successful pieces of the same kind . His See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry was untiring and his knowledge both of the mechanism of the stage and of the tastes of the See also:

• AUDIENCE (from Lat. audire, to hear)

audience was wonderful . For purely theatrical ability he is unrivalled, and his plays are still regarded as See also:

• MODELS

models of dramatic construction . Moreover he was for fifty years the best exponent of the ideas of the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• MIDDLE

middle classes, so that he deserves respectful See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention, even though his See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style be vulgar and his characters See also:

• COMMONPLACE

commonplace . He wrote a few novels, but none of any See also:

• MARK
• MARK, CARL (1858– )
• MARK, GOSPEL OF ST
• MARK, ST

mark . The best-known of Scribe's pieces after his first successful one are Une Chaine (1842); Le Verre d'eau (1842); Adrienne See also:

• LECOUVREUR, ADRIENNE (1692-1730)

Lecouvreur (1849), in See also:

• CONJUNCTION (from Lat. conjungere, to join together)

conjunction with Legouve; See also:

• BERTRAND, HENRI GRATIEN, COMTE (1773-1844)

Bertrand et See also:

• RATON

Raton, ou l'See also:

• ART

art de conspirer; and the libretti of many of the most famous operas of the middle of the See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, especially those of See also:

• AUBER, DANIEL FRANCOIS ESPRIT (1782-1871)

Auber and See also:

• MEYERBEER, GIACOMO (1791-1863)

Meyerbeer . The books of La Muette de See also:

• PORTICI

Portici, Fra See also:

• DIAVOLO, FRA (1771-1806)

Diavolo, See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert le Diable, and of See also:

• LES

Les See also:

• HUGUENOTS

Huguenots are wholly or in See also:

• PART

part by him . Scribe died in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on the loth of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1861 . His fEuvres completes appeared in seventy-six volumes in 1874-'885 . See Legouve, See also:

• EUGENE

Eugene Scribe (1874) .