Eugène Labiche and Marc-Michel

Eugène Labiche was born in Paris in May 1815, the son of an industrialist from Rueil-Malmaison. After studying law, he devoted himself to the theatre and produced more than a hundred plays, almost all written in collaboration, notably with Marc-Michel (1812-1868), one of his associates. In 1853 he bought the estate of Launoy, in the Sologne, was elected mayor of Souvigny in 1868 and busied himself with agricultural work. Elected to the Académie française on 26 February 1880, after the publication of his theatre in ten volumes, he died in Paris in January 1888.

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• TheatreAn Italian Straw HatUn chapeau de paille d'ItalieEugène Labiche and Marc-Michel · 1851LiteraturePublic domain