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Thursday, November 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Sardou, Victorien
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A popular French playwright, born at Paris; gave up medicine for literature, and his first successes were "Monsieur Garat" and "Les Prés Saint-Gervais," both in 1800; from that date his popularity and wealth began to flow in upon him; his work has been taken up by Sarah Bernhardt, for whom he wrote "Fédora," "Théodora," and "La Tosca"; a number of his plays have been translated into English, such as "A Scrap of Paper," "Diplomacy," &c.; was elected to the Academy in 1877; his plays are characterised by clever dialogue and stage effects, and an emotionalism rather French than English; b . 1831.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Sardou, Victorien'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/sardou-victorien.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Sardou, Victorien'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/sardou-victorien.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
