About Guillaume Livet
Lived 1856 – 1919 (aged 63). Guillaume Livet was a French playwright and screenwriter.
Charles Guillaume Livet (24 January 1856 – 16 April 1919) was a French playwright, journalist, novelist and physician.
Biography A student in hospitals and journalist with L’Événement, Le Temps, Gil Blas, the Voltaire (1883-1891) or, among others, the Journal (1892), he graduated Doctor of Medicine (Paris, 1896) and was distinguished for his research on cancer by applying calcium carbide fragments on cancerous parts and obtained the cessation of pain and bleeding.
As a writer, we owe him theatre plays and romance novels, then, during the First World War, novels about the trenches.
Works
1882: Le Mariage de Racine, comedy in 1 act, in verse, with Gustave Vautrey 1884: À travers la porte, saynète in 1 act, in verse 1884: Les Petits Pois, comedy in 1 act 1885: Les Récits de Jean Féru, novel 1885: Chez les Martin, saynète in 1 act, in prose 1885: La Sang-brulé, drama in 5 acts and 6 tableaux, with Alexis Bouvier 1885: Théodora à Montluçon, parody in 1 act and 8 tableaux, with Henri Boucherat 1888: Il reviendra, review in 3 tableaux of the year 1887, with Amédée de Jallais 1888: La Vie du marin ballet, pantomime dramatique in 3 acts and 20 tableaux 1895: L'Amour forcé, novel 1896: Emploi du carbure de calcium en chirurgie (et particulièrement dans le traitement du cancer de l'utérus), thesis 1909: Nick Carter, play in 5 acts and 8 tableaux, with Alexandre Bisson 1910: Le Songe d'une nuit d'automne, novel 1912: Fille adoptive, novel 1912: Nouveau manuel de médecine pour tous 1912: Sous le charme, novel 1913: Cœur d'enfant, novel 1913: Coupable par amour, novel 1913: Miramar, l'homme aux yeux de chat, novel 1913: Pietro Danera, le semeur de morts, novel 1914: Épilepsie et troubles vaso-moteurs localisés consécutifs à une fièvre puerpérale 1915: Marraines de poilus, novel 1916: La Faute d'un brave homme, novel 1916: Le Martyre d'une infirmière, novel 1916: Le Portrait de l'aimée, novel 1917: Amour et gloire, novel 1917: Enfant de vierge, novel 1917: Une Larme de poète, one-act play in verse, with Joseph Vassivière 1917: Un Revenant, novel 1918: Cœur de vieillard, novel 1918: Pauvre Mado, novel 1919: L'Enfant aux deux mères novel
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Who was Guillaume Livet?
French playwright (1856-1919)
When was Guillaume Livet born?
Guillaume Livet was born on 24 January 1856 in Paris.
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Guillaume Livet died on 16 April 1919 in Paris.
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Guillaume Livet was a playwright and screenwriter.
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Guillaume Livet was French.
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