Marcel Prévost

Marcel Prévost in 1910

Eugène Marcel Prévost (1 May 1862 – 8 April 1941) was a French author and dramatist.

Biography

He was born in Paris on 1 May 1862, and educated at Jesuit schools in Bordeaux and Paris, entering the École polytechnique in 1882. He published a story in the Le Clairon as early as 1881, but for some years after the completion of his studies he applied his technical knowledge to the manufacture of tobacco.

He published in succession, Le Scorpion (1887), Chonchette (1888), Mademoiselle Jaufre (1889), Cousine Laura (1890), La Confession d'un amant (1891), Lettres de femmes (1892), L'Automne d'une femme (1893), and in 1894 he made a great sensation by an exaggerated and revolting study of the results of Parisian education and Parisian society on young girls, Les Demi-vierges, which was dramatized and produced with great success at the Gymnase on 21 May 1895. Le Jardin secret appeared in 1897; and in 1900 Les Vierges fortes, and a study of the question of women's education and independence in two novels Frédérique and Léa. L'Heureux ménage (1901), Les Lettres à Françoise (1902), La Princesse d'Erminge (1904), and L'Accordeur aveugle (1905) are among his later novels. An amusing picture of modern German manners is given in his Monsieur et Madame Moloch (1906). He had a great success in 1904 with a four-act play La Plus faible, produced at the Comédie-Française. In 1909 he was elected to the Académie française.

He died on 8 April 1941, aged 78.

Works

• Le Scorpion (1887)
• La Confession d'un amant (1891)
• Lettres de femmes (1892)
• L'Automne d'une femme (1893)
• Nouvelles Lettres de femmes (1894)
• Les Demi-vierges (1894)
• Notre compagne (provinciales et parisiennes) (1895)
• Le Mariage de Julienne (1896)
• Dernières lettres de femmes (1897)
• Le Jardin secret (1897)
• Chonchette (1898)
• Les Vierges fortes: Léa (1900)
• Les Vierges fortes: Frédérique (1900)
• Le Domino jaune: les palombes (1901)
• L'Heureux Ménage (1901)
• Lettres à Françoise (1902)
• Le Pas relevé (1902)
• Cousine Laura (mœurs de théâtre) (1903)
• La Princesse d'Erminge (1904)
• La Plus Faible (comédie en quatre actes) (1904)
• Mademoiselle Jaufre (1905)
• L'Accordeur aveugle (1905)
• Monsieur et Madame Moloch (1906)
• Lettres à Françoise Mariée (1908)
• Pierre et Thérèse (1909)
• Lettres à Françoise Maman (1912)
• Missette: La paille dans l'acier (1912)
• Ces temps-ci: Les anges gardiens (1913)
• Nouvelles Féminités (1914)
• L'Adjudant Benoît (1916)
• D'un poste de commandement (1918)
• Mon Cher Tommy (1920)
• La nuit finira (1920; 2 vols.)
• Sa maîtresse et moi (1925)
• La Retraite ardente (1927)
• Nouvelles Lettres à Françoise ou la jeune fille d'après-guerre (1928)
• L'Homme vierge (1929)
• Voici ton Maître (1930)
• Nos grandes écoles: Polytechnique (1931)
• L'Américain (1931)
• Marie-des-Angoisses (1932)
• Fébronie (1933)
• Clarisse et sa fille (1935)
• La Mort des Ormeaux (1937)

References

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External links

• Works by Marcel Prévost at Hathi Trust
• Works by Marcel Prévost at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Marcel Prévost at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)