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JULES ARSENE ARNAUD CLARETIE (1840-), French man of letters and director of the Theatre Frangais, was born at Limoges on the 3rd of December 1840. After studying at the lycee Bonaparte in Paris, he became an active journalist, achieving great success as dramatic critic to the Figaro and to the Opinion nationale. He was a newspaper correspondent during the Franco-German War, and during the Commune acted as staffofficer in the National Guard. In 1885 he became director of the Theatre Frangais, and from that time devoted his time chiefly to its administration. He was elected a member of the Academy in 1888, and took his seat in Feburary 1889, being received by Ernest Renan. The long list of his works includes Histoire de la revolution de 1870-1871 (new ed., 5 vols., 1875-1876); Cinq ans apres; l'Alsace et la Lorraine depuis l'annexion (1876); some annual volumes of reprints of his articles in the weekly press, entitled La Vie a Paris; La Vie moderne au theatre (1868-1869); Moliere, sa vie et son ceuvre (1871); Histoire de la litterature franraise, 900-1900 (2nd ed. 1905); Candidatl (1887), a novel of contemporary life; Brichanteau, comedien franrais (1896); several plays, some of which are based on novels of his own - Les Muscadins(1874), Le Regiment de Champagne(1 877) , Les Mirabeau (1879), Monsieur le ministre (1883), and others; and the opera, La Navarraise, based on his novel La Cigarette, and written with Henri Cain to the music of Massenet. La Navarraise was first produced at Covent Garden (June 1894) with Mme Calve in the part of Anita. His CEuvres completes were published in 1897-1904.