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Marcel Prévost (1 May 1862 – 8 April 1941) was a French author anddramatist.
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Prévost was born in Paris on 1 May 1862, and educated atJesuit schools inBordeaux and Paris, entering theÉcole polytechnique in 1882. He published a story in theLe Clairon as early as 1881, but for some years after the completion of his studies he applied his technical knowledge to the manufacture oftobacco.[1]
He published in succession,Le Scorpion (1887),Chonchette (1888),Mademoiselle Jaufre (1889),Cousine Laura (1890),La Confession d'un amant (1891),Lettres de femmes (1892),L'Automne d'une femme (1893), and in 1894 he made a great sensation by a study of the results of Parisian education and Parisian society on young girls,Les Demi-vierges, which was dramatized and produced with great success at theGymnase on 21 May 1895.Le Jardin secret appeared in 1897; and in 1900Les Vierges fortes, and a study of the question of women's education and independence in two novelsFrédérique andLéa.[1]
L'Heureux ménage (1901),Les Lettres à Françoise (1902),La Princesse d'Erminge (1904), andL'Accordeur aveugle (1905) are among his later novels. A picture of modern German manners is given in hisMonsieur et Madame Moloch (1906). He had a great success in 1904 with a four-act playLa Plus faible, produced at theComédie-Française.[1]
Prévost was elected to theAcadémie française in 1909.[1]
He died on 8 April 1941, aged 78.
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Prévost, Eugène Marcel".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 312.
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