Eugène Marin Labiche
French dramatist
Died when: 72 years 263 days (872 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Eugène Marin Labiche (6 May 1815 – 22 January 1888) was a French dramatist. He remains famous for his contribution to the vaudeville genre and his passionate and domestic .
In the 1860s, he reached his peak with a series of successes including Le Voyage de M. Perrichon (1860), La Poudre aux yeux (1861), La Station Champbaudet (1862) and La Cagnotte (1864).
He worked with Jacques Offenbach, then director of the Bouffes-Parisiens, to write librettos for operettas and for several comic operas.
His 1851 farce The Italian Straw Hat, written with Marc-Michel, has been adapted many times to stage and screen.
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