29 November 2015

Paris 2015: Cimetière de Vaugirard, 15e arrondissement #3: Lucien Besnard


There's not a great deal of information readily available online about the playwright Lucien Besnard (1872–1955), although I've managed to discover that he was born in Nonancourt (Eure), that his full name is Lucien-Eugène Besnard, and that his final play – Dans l'hombre du harem – was turned into a film in 1929. His current Wikipédia entry gives almost no biographical details, but lists a large number of his plays: Le Glas (1896), Papa Dollivet (1898), Les Chiens du maître (1899), La Fronde (1900), Le Domaine (1902), L'Affaire Grisel (1904), La Plus Amoureuse (1906), Mon ami Teddy (1908), Le Diable ermite (1909), La Folle enchère (1910), Je veux revoir ma Normandie (1913), L'homme qui n'est plus de ce monde (1924), Le Cœur partagé (1926), Dans l'hombre du harem (1927).

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