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Excerpt from The House of Fourchambault: A Comedy in Five Acts
He began his career as a Romantic, and wrote verse plays, but even in one of his earliest l'aven turiere - he gave evidence of his didactic bent, for this was but a thinly disguised thesis play. Augier always stood for the solid bourgeois virtues: so lidarity of the family and temperance. In Le Mariage d'olympe he aims his shaft against the Reign of the Courtesan, who tries to enter fami lies of rank and social standing; in Les Effrontes he denounced a monopoly of power by the press and by political cliques; in Les Fourchambault he sings the praise of fidelity, in Le Gendre de M. Poirier one of the greatest comedies in French literature, he drew conspicuously successful pic tures of the nobility and the bourgeoisie, contrast ing them with fairness and kindly good-humor.
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