Léon Hennique

French writer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroFrench writer
PlacesFrance
wasWriter Playwright Novelist
Work fieldFilm, TV, Stage & Radio Literature
Gender
Male
Birth4 November 1850, Basse-Terre
Death25 December 1935Paris (aged 85 years)
Family
Children:Nicolette Hennique
The details

Biography

Léon Hennique (4 November 1850 in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe – 25 December 1935 in Paris) was a French naturalistic novelist and playwright.

Works

Novels

  • La Dévouée (1878)
  • L'Accident de M. Hébert (1883)
  • Pœuf (1887)
  • Un Caractère (1889)
  • Minnie Brandon (1899)

Plays

  • L'Empereur Dassoucy (1879)
  • Pierrot sceptique (with Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1881)
  • Jacques Damour (1887)
  • Esther Brandès (1887)
  • La Mort du duc d'Enghien (1888)
  • Amour (1890)
  • La Menteuse (1892)
  • L'Argent d'autrui (1893)
  • Deux Patries (1895)
  • La Petite Paroisse (with Alphonse Daudet, 1895)
  • Jarnac (with Johannès Gravier, 1909)

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