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Name
  
Edouard Bourdet

Role
  
Playwright


Spouse
  
Catherine Pozzi (m. 1909)

Children
  
Claude Bourdet

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Died
  
January 17, 1945, Paris, France

Books
  
The Weaker Sex, The captive, The sex fable

Grandchildren
  
Nicolas Bourdet, Louis Bourdet, Catherine Bourdet

Similar People
  
Claude Bourdet, Catherine Pozzi, Brooks Atkinson, Samuel Jean de Pozzi, Ida Adamoff

Poulenc Suite Francaise (0-iii) arr. for wind quintet by Toby Miller


Édouard Bourdet (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 26 October 1887 – Paris, 17 January 1945) was a 20th-century French playwright.

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He was married to the poet, Catherine Pozzi; their son was Claude Bourdet.

Poulenc Suite Francaise (iv-vii) arr. for wind quintet by Toby Miller


Plays

  • 1910: Le Rubicon
  • 1912: La Cage ouverte, Théâtre Michel
  • 1922: L'Heure du berger
  • 1923: L'Homme enchaîné, play in 3 acts, Théâtre Fémina, 7 Novembre
  • 1926: La Prisonnière, presented in London, New York and Vienna
  • 1927: Vient de paraître, comedy in 4 acts, Théâtre de la Michodière, 25 November
  • 1929: Le Sexe faible, comedy in 3 acts which ran for nearly two years at the Théâtre de la Michodière, 10 December, and was also presented in Berlin
  • 1932: La Fleur des pois, comedy in 4 acts, Théâtre de la Michodière, 4 October
  • 1934: Les Temps difficiles, play in 4 acts, Théâtre de la Michodière, 30 January, revived at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier (Comédie-Française) from 22 November to 30 December 2006, arranged by Jean-Claude Berruti
  • 1935: Margot, play in 2 acts, Théâtre Marigny, 26 November, with Pierre Fresnay, Jacques Dumesnil and Yvonne Printemps. Mise en scène was Pierre Fresnay's and the incidental music by Georges Auric and Francis Poulenc
  • 1936: Fric-Frac, play in 5 acts, Théâtre de la Michodière, 15 October
  • 1941: Hyménée, play in 4 acts, Théâtre de la Michodière, 7 May
  • 1942: Père, Théâtre de la Michodière, 15 December
  • Theatre director

  • 1938: Le Vieil Homme by Georges de Porto-Riche, Comédie-Française
  • Filmography

  • 1933 : The Weaker Sex by Robert Siodmak, screenplay and dialogue after his play.
  • References

    Édouard Bourdet Wikipedia