Background
Alfred Capus was born in Provence on the 25th of November, 1858 and was a son of a lawyer from Marseille.
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Alfred Capus was born in Provence on the 25th of November, 1858 and was a son of a lawyer from Marseille.
Alfred Capus went to university in Toulon. Then he went on to become a journalist.
In 1878 Alfred Capus published, in collaboration with L. Vonoven, a volume of short stories, and in the next year the two produced a one-act piece, Le Mari malgri lui, at the Theatre Cluny. He had been educated as an engineer, but became a journalist, and joined the staff of the Figaro in 1894. His novels, Qui perd gagne (1890), Faux Depart (1891), Annies d'aventures (1895), which belong to this period, describe the struggles of three young men at the beginning of their career. From the first of these he took his first comedy, Brignol et sa fille (Vaudeville, 23rd November 1894). Among his later plays are Innocent (1896), written with Alphonse Allais; Petites folles (1897); Rosine (1897); Manage bourgeois (1898); Les Maris de Leontine (1900); La Bourse ou la vie (1900); La Veine (1901); La Petite Fonctionnaire (1901); Les Deux icoles (1902); La Chdtelaine( 1902); L'Adversaire (1903), with Emmanuel Arene, which was produced in London by Mr George Alexander as The Man of the Moment, and Notre Jeunesse (1904), the first of his plays to be represented at the Theatre Franjais; Monsieur Piigois (1903); and, in collaboration with Lucien Descaves, L' Attentat (1906).
In 1914, Alfred Capus became the editor of Figaro. He also wrote humorous pieces for papers such as Gaulois, L'Écho de Paris and L'Illustration.
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