Émile Fabre
French playwright / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Émile Fabre (24 March 1869 in Metz, France – 25 September 1955 in Paris)[1] was a French playwright and general administrator of the Comédie-Française from 1915 to
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1936.[2]: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.[3] 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.[4]