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French playwright and journalist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pierre-Charles-Joseph-Auguste Lefranc (2 February 1814 – 15 December 1878) was a 19th-century French playwright and journalist.
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| Born | Pierre-Charles-Joseph-Auguste Lefranc 2 February 1814 |
| Died | 15 December 1878 (aged 64) |
| Occupation(s) | Playwright, journalist |
After secondary studies in Mâcon, he moved to Paris in order to attend law school. There he met Eugène Labiche and Marc-Michel.[citation needed] He obtained his license and registered with the Bar but did not practice law for long, becoming more interested in writing.[citation needed] He worked with small newspapers and founded l'Audience and La Chaire catholique. But his passion was theater.[citation needed]
Through his cousin Eugène Scribe, who then dominated the French playwriting scene, he received helpful advice and support from theatre directors.[citation needed] His first play, a comédie en vaudevilles in one act titled Une femme tombée du ciel, premiered in 1836 at the Théâtre du Panthéon.[1] In 1838, Labiche, Lefranc and Marc-Michel founded the "Paul Dandré Dramatic Society", a collective literary pseudonym for the production of comedies and dramas. A contract formally linked the three theatrical newcomers, who agreed to write only for their new partnership.[citation needed] While the experience lasted only two years, it ended amicably.[citation needed] Labiche, in a letter to Nadar, however, blamed the dissolution on Lefranc's "laziness and inaccuracy".[citation needed]
Over the next two decades, Lefranc wrote fifty more comedies, mostly with Labiche (the last, L'Avocat d'un Grec, in 1859[2]).[citation needed]. Except for Embrassons-nous, Folleville! (1850),[3] which was refashioned into an opéra-comique with music by Avelino Valenti and successfully performed at the second Salle Favart in 1879,[4] none of his plays is considered significant, and many were not even published. He then changed careers, becoming a banker by taking over the Caisse du Crédit public A. Lefranc and Cie.[citation needed]
From 8 July 1867 until mid 1868 Lefranc was a co-director of the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, along with Julien-Joseph-Henry Dupontavisse. During their tenure the theatre temporarily presented comédies en vaudevilles.[5]
He died on 15 December 1878 in his country house in Suresnes.
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