Francois Coppee

The Passer-By

A Comedy In One Act (1885)

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Produktbeschreibung

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 36
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 216mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 164g
• ISBN-13: 9781104319861
• ISBN-10: 1104319861
• Artikelnr.: 26351765

Autorenporträt

The French artist and author Francois Edouard Joachim Coppée was born on January 26, 1842, and died on May 23, 1908. Coppée was born in Paris to a government worker. He worked as a clerk in the Ministry of War after going to the Lycée Saint-Louis and became famous as a poet of the Parnassian school. He put out his first poems in print in 1864. A lot of people liked his "Poème modernes" in 1869, including "La Grève de forgerons." Coppée's first play, Le Passant, with Sarah Bernhardt and Madame Agar, opened at the Odéon theater that same year and got good reviews. Later, Fais ce que dois (1871) and Les Bijoux de la délivrance (1872), two short poetic plays based on the Franco-Prussian War, also got good reviews. In 1878, Coppée was hired as the historian of the Comédie Francaise. He held this job until 1884, after having worked in the library of the senate. In that year, he quit all of his public jobs after being elected to the Académie francaise. In 1888, he was made an officer of the Legion of Honor.