Armand Durantin

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Armand Durantin
BornAnne-Adrien-Armand Durantin
4 April 1818
Senlis
Died 30 December 1891(1891-12-30) (aged 73)
Boursonne (Oise)
Occupation Playwright
novelist

Anne-Adrien-ArmandDurantin, also called Armand de Villevert, (4 April 1818 – 30 December 1891) was a 19th-century French playwright and novelist.

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Biography

First a lawyer, [1] Durantin turned to literature and collaborated with the France littéraire and the Echo français as well as with other magazines. He then began to write theatre plays but success remained modest until the day the Théâtre du Gymnase announced a comedy in four acts, without the author's name, entitled Heloise Paranquet. How Montigny, then director of the Gymnase, had mounted this play aroused public attention. The success the play obtained, thanks to the skilful handling of dramatic situations, had critics trying to find who the author was, a name that the Cabinet littéraire soon unveiled. Only later was it learned that Durantin had benefited the collaboration of Alexandre Dumas fils. [2] Durantin also injected his legal expertise in this play, but when he tried to repeat the feat with Thérèse Humbert two years later, the public did not follow him.

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Publications

Theatre

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References

  1. ↑ Augustin Challamel, Souvenirs d'un hugolâtre : la génération de 1830, J. Lévy, Paris, 1885, p. 137.
  2. ↑ Durantin told the story of this collaboration in his Histoire d'Héloïse Paranquet et manuscrit primitif ayant servi à M. Alexandre Dumas pour retoucher la pièce que lui a portée M. Armand Durantin et qui s'appelait alors « Mademoiselle de Breuil », Dentu, Paris, 1882
  3. ↑ Jules Lermina, Dictionnaire universel illustré, biographique et bibliographique, de la France contemporaine, L. Boulanger, Paris, vol. 2, p. 253.
  4. ↑ Base Léonore

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