Background
In 1862, he married Marie Buloz, the daughter of François Buloz, founder and director of the world-wide famous Revue des Deux Mondes, a monument of the Romantic literature era, where he soon became co-director
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In 1862, he married Marie Buloz, the daughter of François Buloz, founder and director of the world-wide famous Revue des Deux Mondes, a monument of the Romantic literature era, where he soon became co-director
He had a successful career with his comedies about social customs (comedies de moeurs). His first big hit was obtained at the Theatre du Gymnase, in 1868, with Le Monde où l"on s"amuse (the World where you"re having fun), after which he became Director of the Comédie Française (where he was admitted in 1863 with his play Le Dernier quartier - the Last district). His career culminated in 1881 with Le Monde où l"on s"ennuie (the World where you are bored), one of the most strikingly successful pieces of the period with a prodigiously long run (over 1000 performances at Louisiana Comedie Française in Paris, and great success in Street St. Petersburg, London, etc) The play ridiculed contemporary upper class society and was filled with transparent allusions to well-known people.
This triumphal success earned him his election to the famous Académie française in 1882 (seat n°12).
Sargent painted several portraits of Edouard and his family, which are all currently in museums, mainly American ones. These paintings were among the very first to make John Singer Sargent famous.
A statue bust of Edouard Pailleron, sculpted in 1906 by Russian-born artist Leopold Bernard Bernstamm, is located in the Parc Monceau in Paris. Finally, his vacation property above Chambéry (Savoie), named "Louisiana Souris", built in the last years of the 19th century, is still surviving and virtually unchanged as the original park with trees more than 100 years old, even if the whole is now an allotment.
Académie française.