Manic de Montréal

|Mairie de Lorient, District | |MANGE Florence |SOFRES | |MANIC Pierre-Yves |AAHVB (Lorient), administrateur suppléant | |MARINOT Guy |Mairie de Nice, Conseiller municipal

puce à l’oreille (1907), Occupe-toi d’Amélie (1908) and On purge Bébé (1910), the most durable of his 39 plays, deal with the preposterous antics (‘Ciel, mon mari!’) of cardboard characters but work supremely well as theatre in terms of furious pace, manic action and technical brilliance. But in the two decades before 1914, the most popular comic talent was Georges Courteline (pseud. of Georges Moinaux, 1858–1929). Both as novelist and playwright, his strength lay in observation rather than in plot or