Henri Lavedan

Who was Henri Lavedan?

Henri Léon Emile Lavedan, French dramatist and man of letters, was born at Orléans, the son of Hubert Léon Lavedan, a well-known Catholic and liberal journalist.

Lavedan contributed to various Parisian papers a series of witty tales and dialogues of Parisian life, many of which were collected in volume form. In 1891 he produced at the Théâtre Français Une Famille, followed at the Vaudeville in 1894 by Le Prince d'Aurec, a satire on the nobility, afterward renamed Les Descendants.

He had a great success with Le Duel, a powerful psychological study of the relations of two brothers. Lavedan was admitted to the Académie française in 1898.