Lucien Besnard
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Lucien Besnard (19 January 1872 – 1955) was a French playwright and drama critic.
Besnard was born in Nonancourt on 19 January 1872.[1] He held a doctorate in law. He also studied Russian at the École des langues orientales.
His play Le Coeur partagé was premiered on 6 Decembre 1926 in Paris by the Comédie-Française at the Salle Richelieu, and ran until 1931.[2] His 1927 play Dans l'hombre du harem was adapted the following year into a silent film of the same name (In the Shadow of the Harem).[3][4][5]
In 1932, Besnard adapted Im weißen Rößl, a German operetta by Ralph Benatzky, into French as L'Auberge du Cheval Blanc.[6][7]
Besnard died in Paris in 1955.[1] He is buried at Vaugirard Cemetery in Paris.
Plays
- 1896: Le Glas
- 1898: Papa Dollivet
- 1899: Les Chiens du maître
- 1900: La Fronde[8]
- 1902: Le Domaine
- 1904: L'Affaire Grisel[9]
- 1906: La Plus Amoureuse
- 1908: Mon ami Teddy
- 1909: Le Diable ermite
- 1910: La Folle enchère
- 1913: Je veux revoir ma Normandie
- 1924: L'homme qui n'est plus de ce monde
- 1926: Le Cœur partagé
- 1927: Dans l'hombre du harem[5]
Prizes
The Académie Française awarded Lucien Besnard two prizes:[10]
- 1926: Prix Émile Augier for L'homme qui n’est plus de ce monde
- 1928: Prix Toirac for Le cœur partagé
References
- ^ a b "Acte de décès (avec date et lieu de naissance) à Paris 7e, n° 600, vue 3/31". archives.paris.fr (in French). 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
- ^ "Le Coeur partagé". Comédie-Française (in French). Retrieved 24 February 2025.
- ^ "Dans l'ombre du harem". mubi.com. 2021. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
- ^ "Dans l'ombre du harem". unifrance-org (in French). 2025. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
- ^ a b Slavin, David Henry (2001). Colonial Cinema and Imperial France, 1919–1939: White Blind Spots, Male Fantasies, Settler Myths. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 91–93. ISBN 9780801866166. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
- ^ "L'Auberge du Cheval Blanc". Théâtre musical opérette (in French). 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
- ^ "L'Auberge du Cheval Blanc". Lausanne Opera (in French). 2021. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
- ^ Roberts, Mary Louise (2017). Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siècle France. University of Chicago Press. pp. 44–45. ISBN 9780226360751. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
- ^ Ranciere, Jacques (2021). The Intellectual and His People: Staging the People Volume 2. Verso Books. pp. 32–33. ISBN 9781788739658. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
- ^ "Lucien Besnard". Académie Française (in French). Retrieved 24 February 2025.
External links
- The Origins of the French Popular Theatre Journal of Contemporary History
- Fisher, David James: Paris 2015: Cimetière de Vaugirard, 15e arrondissement #3: Lucien Besnard tonyshaw3.blogspot.com
