Pierre Decourcelle

Pierre Decourcelle ( born January 25, 1856 in Paris, † October 10, 1926 ) was a French writer.

Decourcelle operated after the conclusion of the Lycée Henri IV, first as a merchant and stockbroker before he, like his father and his uncle Adolphe Adrien Decourcelle d' Ennery, the literature turned.

Early as 1880, his play Le Grain de beauté at the Théâtre du Gymnase premiered. On behalf of Sarah Bernhardt in 1882 he wrote the drama L'As de trèfle for the Théâtre de l' Ambigu -Comique. He also worked under the pseudonyms Choufleuri and Valentin as a journalist for the magazine Gaulois.

Since the 1880s a number of comedies, opera libretti and adaptations of novels for the stage was. In addition, he also wrote short stories and popular novels and screenplays for the film. Les deux gosses, initially written as a drama, 1890, also appeared as a novel, was filmed only five times: in 1912 by Adrien Caillard, 1923 by Maurice Tourneur ( under the title Jealous Husbands ), 1924 by Louis Mercanton, 1936 by Fernand Rivers, 1942 by Alfonso Patiño Gómez (Los dos pilletes ) and in 1951 by Flavio Calzavara ( I due Derelitti ).

1907 edited Decourcelle a play by William Gillette Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes ( in the 1903 Charles Chaplin his first major stage appearance was ), for the French stage. In 1908 he was one of the founding members of the Société des auteurs et gens de cinématographique lettres ( SCAGL ), produced the films by classic works of literature. 1912-13 he was its artistic director.

Works

• Le grain de beauté, 1880
• L'As de trèfle, 1882
• Le fond du sac, 1883
• La Charbonnière, 1884
• L' Amazone, 1885
• Les potins de Paris, 1885
• Madame Cartouche, 1886
• Les doigts de Birouk, 1886
• Cloclo, 1887
• L' abbé Constantin, 1887
• Le chapeau gris, novel, 1887
• Le dragon de la reine, 1888
• Mensonges ( by Paul Bourget ), 1889
• Fanfan, novel, 1889
• Les deux gosses, novel, 1890

• Author
• Drama
• Libretto
• Novel, epic
• Frenchman
• Born in 1856
• Died in 1926
• Man