Feydeau

/ fɛdo /

noun

1. FeydeauGeorges18621921MFrenchTHEATRE: dramatist Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1862–1921, French dramatist, noted for his farces, esp La Dame de chez Maxim (1899) and Occupe-toi d'Amélie (1908)

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Tweeters compared the new "psychodrama" to Feydeau, the Belle Epoque playwright famed for bedroom farce.

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There was a cab-stand only a few steps from the house, but he preferred to run to the jobmaster's stables in the Rue Feydeau.

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M. Ernest Feydeau, in a popular story of very bad principles, seems to hit the right nail on the head.

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Feydeau is distinctly another story; his plays are more successful than any others given in Paris.

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M. Ernest Feydeau's book is, in spite of its title, most attractive reading.

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This work wras received with much favor at the Feydeau theatre, though it did not arouse the admiration called out by "Lodoska."

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