Alfred Capus

Alfred Capus (November 25, 1858 – 1922), French author, was born at Aix-en-Provence.

In 1878 he published, in collaboration with L Vonoven, a volume of short stories, and in the next year the two produced a one-act piece, Le Mari malgre lui, at the Théâtre Cluny. He had been educated as an engineer, but became a journalist, and joined the staff of the Figaro in 1894.

His novels, Qui perd gagne (189o), Faux Depart (1891), Année des d'aventures (1895), which belong to this period, describe the struggles of three young men at the beginning of their career. From the first of these he took his first comedy, Brignol et sa fille (Vaudeville, November 23, 1894).

Among his later plays are

• Innocent (1896), written with Alphonse Allais
• Petites folles (1897)
• Rosine (1897)
• Mariage bourgeois (1898)
• Les Maris de Leontine (1900)
• La Bourse ou la vie (1900)
• La Veine (1901)
• La Petite Fonctionnaire (1901)
• Les Deux Ecoles (1902)
• La Châtelaine (1902)
• L'Adversaire (1903), with Emmanuel Arène, which was produced in London by George Alexander as The Man of the Moment
• Notre Jeunesse (1904), the first of his plays to be represented at the Théâtre Français
• Monsieur Piegois (1905)
• in collaboration with Lucien Descaves, L'Attentat (1906)

See Edouard Quet, Alfred Capus (1904), with appreciations by various authors, in the series of Célébrités d'aujourd'hui.

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.