Excerpt from Le Voyage De Monsieur Perrichon: Com???die En Quatre Actes In 1 876, anticipating the waning of his popularity, he retired to Normandy, wealthy, but with no prospect of enduring fame. He seemed to leave no gap behind in the dramatic world. Fortunately, however, he carried with him the friendship of Augier, the greatest French dramatist of this half-century, who, while visiting him some months after, fell to reading, on a rainy day, some of his friend's comedies, and found in them as much to admire as in their ...
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Excerpt from Le Voyage De Monsieur Perrichon: Com???die En Quatre Actes In 1 876, anticipating the waning of his popularity, he retired to Normandy, wealthy, but with no prospect of enduring fame. He seemed to leave no gap behind in the dramatic world. Fortunately, however, he carried with him the friendship of Augier, the greatest French dramatist of this half-century, who, while visiting him some months after, fell to reading, on a rainy day, some of his friend's comedies, and found in them as much to admire as in their author. Charmed with his discovery, he persuaded Labiche to publish a collected edition of his plays, for which he furnished a warm preface. Others, among them Sarcey, the dramatic autocrat of Paris, chimed in the chorus of praise, and in 1879 no one found it presumptuous that he, whose departure had not left a ripple on the surface of literary Paris, should return as a candidate for the Academy, which, in these latter days, has been peculiarly cordial to playwrights, as though wishing to make honorable amends for the exclusion of Beaumarchais and Moliere.' Labiche was made an Acade mician in 1880 but, for him at least, contentment was better than wealth, and he could not be tempted to resume literary work, though some of his plays were revived with phenomenal success, chief among them Perrichon, in 1879. Labiche died January 23, 1888. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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