biography
| name: |
Mirbeau, Octave (-Henri-Marie)
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pronunciation:
[meerboh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1850–1917)
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| biography:
| Novelist and playwright, born in Trévières, NW France. He became known with his stories, Lettres de ma chaumière (1886) and La Calvaire (1887). His novels, Le Jardin des supplices (1899), Le Journal d'une femme de chambre (1900), and Dingo (1913), were bitter social satires, and Les Affaires sont les affaires (1903) was his most successful play. He was one of the 10 original members of the Acadéemie Goncourt, founded in 1903. |
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