Benjamin Antier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French playwright
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Benjamin Antier
- Benjamin Antier, real name Benjamin Chevrillon, (21 March 1787 – 25 April 1870), was a 19th-century French playwright. An author of melodramas and vaudevilles written in collaboration with other dramatists, he is mostly known for his drama L'Auberge des Adrets, premiered in 1823.
- The play featured the villain Robert Macaire, played on stage by Frédérick Lemaître, who, in 1835, wrote with Antier a second play called Robert Macaire.
- The character was then popularized by Daumier's caricatures to become, after James Rousseau's word in his Physiologie du Robert Macaire, "the embodiment of our positive, selfish, greedy, liar, boastful era...
- basically blagueuse.
- In 1945, L'Auberge des Adrets would be the basis of Marcel Carné's film, Children of Paradise, with Jean-Louis Barrault and Arletty. Most of his plays were signed "Benjamin", as it was then customary for melodrama writers and actors to make them known by their first names.
- He was made chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1864.
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