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Brieux

American  
[bree-œ] / briˈœ /

noun

  1. Eugène 1858–1932, French playwright, journalist, and editor.


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Within a fortnight of the appearance of the book the Brieux craze will exist in full magnificence.

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Arnold Bennett

M. Brieux deals with this question in Les Avariés: it is a tragedy that should be read by all women.

From The Truth About Woman by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

M. Brieux, to whom I was relating this part of my argument, stopped me, saying, "You have guessed right; I represent to myself thought issuing from brain in the form of an electric gleam."

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet

Mr. Shaw has not yet been able to use the theatre in this way, and still less, Brieux.

From Personality in Literature by Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

He states his case in the Preface which he wrote to Three Plays by Brieux.

From Personality in Literature by Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

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