Word: augier
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Emile Augier (1820-1869), inaugurated in 1849, with the comedy he named "Gabrielle," a teaching which he continued for more than thirty years, first blaming "mesalliences" based on vanity and ridiculing those young men who put too much poetry in marriage, and old men who wed very young wives. Emile Augier has studied Society at large, moving in all spheres,--aristocracy, bourgeoisie, and the people. His moral comedies constitute a genuine social study. The principal disciple of Augier is now M. Brieux, to whom we can add M. F. de Curel...
Alexandre Dumas fils, (1824-1895), owed the first success of his celebrity to "La Dame aux Camelias", and "Question d'Argent." As Augier, although in a different way, he is especially a moralist and his attacks are directed against the vices of his time. "Le Fils Natural" and "Le Pere Predigue" are the two sides of one same social thesis. He also laughs at ill matched marriages. The aim of Dumas in to rebuild Society by means of the family, and the family, by means of love. He declared that always and everywhere he aimed at an "ideal of love...
...subject of the lecture this afternoonis; "Les Maitres du Theatre contemporain: Augier' Dumas fils, Meilhac et Halevy, Sardou." Admission will be by ticket until 4.25, when the doors will be thrown open to the public...
Lectures on the Modern French Drama. I. Les Maitres du Theatre contemporain: Augier, Dumas fils, Meilhac et Halevy, Sardou. M. Gaston Deschamps, Sanders Theatre, 4.30 p. m. Admission by ticket only till 4.25 p. m., then open to the public...
Lectures on the Modern French Drama. I. Les Maitres du Theatre contemporain: Augier, Dumas fils, Meilhacnet Halevy, Sardou. M. Gast on Deschamps, Sanders Theatre, 4.30 p. m. Admission by ticket only till 4.25 p. m., then open to the public...