Émile Fabre#Plays
{{Short description|French playwright (1869-1955)}}
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Émile Fabre (24 March 1869 in Metz, France – 25 September 1955 in Paris){{Cite web|title=Émile Fabre {{!}} French dramatist {{!}} Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emile-Fabre|access-date=2021-12-11|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|language=en}} was a French playwright and general administrator of the Comédie-Française from 1915 to
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| name = Émile Fabre
| image = Emile_Fabre.jpg
| caption = Émile Fabre in 1917
| birth_date = 24 March 1869
| birth_place = Metz, France
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1955|9|25|1869|3|24}}
| death_place = Paris, France
}}
1936.{{Cite journal|last=McCready|first=Susan|date=2003|title=The Compromise of Commemoration: The 1927 Centennial of Romanticism at the Comédie-Française|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/501089/summary|journal=Modern Drama|language=en|volume=46|issue=2|pages=227–240|doi=10.1353/mdr.2003.0058|s2cid=201757099|issn=1712-5286|url-access=subscription}}:227 He was greatly influenced by Balzac as a young man, and most of his best-known plays deal with the sacrifice of personal happiness to the pursuit of wealth.Garreau, Joseph E. (1984). [https://books.google.com/books?id=WOAHl9i-n0EC&pg=PA136 "Fabre, Émile"] in Stanley Hochman (ed.) McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, Vol. 1, p. 136. {{ISBN|0070791694}} He also wrote the libretto for Xavier Leroux's opera Les cadeaux de Noël (The Christmas Gifts) which was a great success when it premiered in Paris in 1915.Le Figaro (13 April 1917). [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k291376f/f4.image "Courrier des Théâtres"], p. 4 {{in lang|fr}}
Career at the Comédie-Française
Fabre was appointed general administrator of the Comédie-Française on 2 December 1915.:227 According to Susan McCready,
During Fabre's tenure, the Comédie-Française moved from the center of the theatre scene, where theatrical creation and innovation are paramount, to its periphery, where [ . . . ] its role was increasingly limited to the preservation of the past.:2In 1922 he organised the Cycle Moliere, in which all of Moliere's plays were performed in chronological order.:231
The success of this event, encouraged him to organise the Centennial of Romanticism in 1927, the 100-year anniversary of Victor Hugo's Preface de Cromwell (Qe Waleffe).:232 Over the course of the Centennial the theatre staged twenty-one Romantic plays.
Plays
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Category:Administrators of the Comédie-Française
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