Jean Anouilh (June 23, 1910 – October 3, 1987) was a French dramatist. June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 191 days remaining. ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A dramatist is an author of dramatic compositions, usually plays. ...

He was born in Cérisole, a small village on the outskirts of Bordeaux and had Basque ancestry. His father was a tailor and Anouilh maintained that he inherited from him a pride in conscientious craftmanship. He may owe his artistic bent to his mother, a violinist who eked out the family's meager budget playing summer seasons in the casino orchestra in the nearby seaside resort of Arachon. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Languages Basque - few monoglots Spanish - 1,525,000 monoglots French - 150,000 monoglots Basque-Spanish - 600,000 speakers Basque-French - 76,000 speakers [4] other native languages Religions Traditionally Roman Catholic The Basques (Basque: Euskaldunak) are an indigenous people[] who inhabit parts of both Spain and France. ... A violinist is an instrumentalist who plays the violin. ...

Anouilh attended the école primaire supérieure where he received his secondary education at the Collège Chaptal. Jean-Louis Barrault, later a major French director, was a pupil there at the same time and recalls Anouilh as an intense, rather dandified figure who hardly noticed a lad some two years younger than himself. Anouilh enrolled as a law student in the University of Paris, only to abandon the course after just eighteen months when he found employment in the advertising industry. He liked the work and spoke more than once with wry approval of the lessons in the classical virtues of brevity and precision of language the he learned drafting copy. The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving The historic University of Paris (French: ) first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was in 1970 reorganised as 13 autonomous universities (University of Paris I–XIII). ...

In 1932, his first play, L’Hermine, written in 1929, flopped, but he followed it up with a string of others. He struggled through years of poverty producing several plays until he eventually wound up as secretary to the great actor-director Louis Jouvet. He quickly discovered he could not get along with this gruff man and left his company. Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... Louis Jouvet (December 24, 1887 - August 16, 1951) was a renowned French actor and producer. ...

He was an outstanding writer with a unique ability to craft a wide spectrum of brilliant masterpieces. In 1970 his work was recognized with the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca. The Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (Cino Del Duca World Prize) is a major international literary award established in 1969 in France by Simone Del Duca (1912-2004) to continue the work of her late husband, publishing magnate Cino Del Duca (1899-1967). ...

Anouilh married actress Monelle Valentin in 1931 and soon after had a child. He died in Lausanne, Switzerland. Lausanne (pronounced ) is a city in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva (French: Lac Léman), and facing Évian-les-Bains (France) and with the Jura mountains to its north. ...

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Works

• L'Hermine (The Ermine) (1931)
• Mandarine (1933)
• Y avait un prisonnier (There Was a Prisoner) (1935)
• Le voyageur sans bagage (Traveller without Luggage) (1937)
• La sauvage (Restless Heart) (1938)
• Le Bal des Voleurs (Thieves' Carnival) (1938)
• Léocadia (Time Remembered) (1940)
• Eurydice (Point of Departure and Legend of Lovers) (1941)
• Le rendez-vous de Senlis (The Rendezvous at Senlis and Dinner with the Family) (1941)
• Antigone (1942)
• Roméo et Jeannette (Romeo and Jeannette) (1946)
• L'Invitation au Château (Ring Round the Moon) (1947)
• Ardèle ou la Marguerite (Ardèle; The Cry of the Peacock) (1948)
• La répétition ou l'amour puni (The Rehearsal) (1950)
• Colombe (Mademoiselle Colombe) (1951)
• La valse des toréadors (The Waltz of the Toreadors) (1952)
• L'Alouette (The Lark) (1952)
• Ornifle ou le courant d'air (Ornifle or It's Later than you Think) (1955)
• Pauvre Bitos ou le dîner de têtes (Poor Bitos, or The Masked Dinner) (1956)
• L'hurluberlu ou le réactionnaire amoureux (The Fighting Cock) (1959)
• La petite Molière (1959)
• Becket ou l'honneur de Dieu (Becket or The Honor of God) (1959)
• La Grotte (The Cavern) (1961)
• Le boulanger, la boulangère et le petit mitron (1968)
• Cher Antoine; ou l'amour raté (Dear Antoine; or The Love that Failed) (1969)
• Les poissons rouges; ou Mon père, ce héros (The Goldfish) (1970)
• Tu étais si gentil quand tu étais petit (You Were So Nice When You Were Young) (1972)
• Monsieur Barnett (1974)
• L'Arrestation (1975)
• Chers zoizeaux (1976)
• Vive Henri IV (1978)
• La Culotte (1978)
• La Foire d'empoigne (Catch as Catch Can) (1979)
• Le Nombril (The Navel) (1981)

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External links

• Jean Anouilh at the Internet Movie Database