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Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh
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Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise. Anouilh was born in Cérisole, a small village on the outskirts of Bordeaux, and had Basque ancestry. His father, François Anouilh, was a tailor, and Anouilh maintained that he inherited from him a pride in conscientious craftmanship. He may owe his artistic bent to his mother, Marie-Magdeleine, a violinist who supplemented the family's meager income by playing summer seasons in the casino orchestra in the nearby seaside resort of Arcachon. Marie-Magdeleine worked the night shifts in the music-hall orchestras and sometimes accompanied stage presentations, affording Anouilh ample opportunity to absorb the dramatic performances from backstage. He often attended rehearsals and solicited the resident authors to let him read scripts until bedtime. He first tried his hand at playwriting here, at the age of 12, though his earliest works do not survive. In 1918 the family moved to Paris where the young Anouilh received his secondary education at the Lycée Chaptal. Jean-Louis Barrault, later a major French director, was a pupil there at the same time and recalls Anouilh as an intense, rather dandified figure who hardly noticed a boy some two years younger than himself. He earned acceptance into the law school at the Sorbonne but, unable to support himself financially, he left after just 18 months to seek work as a copywriter at the advertising agency Publicité Damour. He liked the work, and spoke more than once with wry approval of the lessons in the classical virtues of brevity and precision of language he learned while drafting advertising copy. ... Source: Article "Jean Anouilh" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1910-06-23
- event Death Date 1987-10-03
- school Known for: Writing
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- info Birth Place Bordeaux, Gironde, France
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Anna Karenina
1948-01-22
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A Time for Loving
1972-04-01
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Monsieur Vincent
1947-11-05
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Valčík toreadorů
1964-01-06
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The Mayor's Dilemma
1939-03-23
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Crimson Curtain
1952-11-14
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Dear Caroline
1951-02-28
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Kruté štěstí
1966-10-10
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Antigone
1974-02-13
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Romeo a Jana
1968-09-16
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The Traveler Without Luggage
1944-02-23
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The Traveler Without Luggage
1944-02-23
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The Bride of Darkness
1945-03-22
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A Trap for Cinderella
1965-10-22
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On m'a volé mon adolescence
2008-06-25
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Cavalcade of Love
1939-11-06
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Circle of Love
1964-10-16
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Becket
1964-03-11
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Appuntamento a Senlis
1972-06-09
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The Passion of Slow Fire
1961-03-02
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Eurydice
1957-11-26
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Confessions of a Newlywed
1937-02-26
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La Nuit des rois
1973-05-18
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La répétition ou L'amour puni
1986-03-19
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Il est important d'être aimé
1981-02-06
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The Lark
1957-02-10
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White Paws
1949-04-13
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The Knight of the Night
1953-11-22
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Orchester
1972-01-01
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You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
2012-09-01
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Two Pennies Worth of Violets
1951-10-31
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Two Pennies Worth of Violets
1951-10-31
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Repetitionen
1968-01-28
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Monsoon
1952-11-01
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The Savage
1979-02-19
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Marie-Martine
1943-05-11
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Le voyageur sans bagage
2004-09-25
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Antigone
2003-05-05
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Waltz of the Toreadors
1962-04-12
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The Citadel of Silence
1937-06-03
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Madame de…
1961-05-23
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Histoire du Chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut
1978-12-18
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Histoire du Chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut
1978-12-18