Jean Anouilh

Jean Anouilh was born on 23 June 1910 near Bordeaux, the son of a tailor and a musician. He left the law faculty after a few months to work in advertising, then became Louis Jouvet's secretary at the Comédie des Champs-Élysées. He wrote several dozen plays, which he himself arranged in series: pièces roses, noires, brillantes, grinçantes, costumées. He himself directed several of them, often with Roland Piétri. He died in 1987.

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• TheatreThe LarkL'AlouetteJean Anouilh · 1953Literature