Brieux
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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So I chose Brieux instead of Hugo, and saw "La Robe Rouge" at the Français.
From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold
The strange fact about Brieux is that he propounds his uncomfortable ideas with an incredible amount of dash and spirit.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
From this incident alone I was almost ready to prophesy a Brieux craze in London.
From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold
Brieux is for him the greatest French dramatist since Molière; and more important because whilst Molière was content to indict human nature, Brieux devotes his energy to an indictment of society.
From Personality in Literature by Scott-James, Rolfe Arnold
French writers like Brieux protest that American conceptions of French morals are based on the reading of French books whose authors have no standing in Paris, and whose very names are unknown to their countrymen.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon
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