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- Birth nameEugène Marin Labiche
- Eugène Labiche was born on May 6, 1815 in Paris, France. He was a writer, known for Le voyage de Monsieur Perrichon (1934), L'affaire de la rue de Lourcine (1923) and Two Timid Souls (1928). He was married to Adèle Hubert. He died on January 22, 1888 in Paris, France.
- SpouseAdèle Hubert(April 25, 1842 - January 20, 1888) (his death, 1 child)
- In the 1860s, he reached his peak with a series of successes including Le Voyage de M. Perrichon (1860), La Poudre aux yeux (1861), La Station Champbaudet (1862) and La Cagnotte (1864).
- He was a French dramatist.
- He worked with Jacques Offenbach, then director of the Bouffes-Parisiens, to write librettos for operettas and for several comic operas.
- Due to this re-evaluation of Labiche's writing, he was elected to the Académie française in 1880.
- Labiche tried his hand at dramatic criticism in the Revue des théâtres and in 1838, wrote and premiered two plays. The small Théâtre du Pantheon produced, to some popular success, his drama L'Avocat Loubet, while a vaudeville, Monsieur de Coyllin, ou l'homme infiniment poli (written in collaboration with Marc-Michel and performed at the Palais Royal) introduced a provincial actor who was to become and to remain a great Parisian favourite, the famous comedian Grassot.
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