Sardou, Victorien
(1831–1908)> PLAYWRIGHT
Sardou, Victorien (5 September 1831, Paris; 8 November 1908, Marly), playwright, found himself alone in Paris as a young man after his parents’ enforced departure from the capital. He tried to support himself by writing for the theatre, but his ambitions were thwarted by an actress who refused to show any interest in one text, by censors who condemned another script, and by a director who lost the composition entrusted to him. Sardou refused to be discouraged by these mishaps between 1851 and…