CAPUS

capus, alfred (1858- ), french author, was born at aix, in provence, on the 25th of november 1858. in 1878 he published, in collaboration with l. vonoven, a volume of short stories, and in the next year the two produced a one-act piece, _le mari malgre lui_, at the theatre cluny. he had been educated as an engineer, but became a journalist, and joined the staff of the _figaro_ in 1894. his novels, _qui perd gagne_ (1890), _faux depart_ (1891), _annees d'aventures_ (1895), which belong to this period, describe the struggles of three young men at the beginning of their career. from the first of these he took his first comedy, _brignol et sa file_ (vaudeville, 23rd november 1894). among his later plays are _innocent_ (1896), written with alphonse allais; _petites folles_ (1897); _rosine_ (1897); _mariage bourgeois_ (1898); _les maris de leontine_ (1900); _la bourse ou la vie_ (1900), _la veine_ (1901); _la petite fonctionnaire_ (1901); _les deux ecoles_ (1902); _la chatelaine (1902); l' adversaire_ (1903), with emmanuel arene, which was produced in london by mr george alexander as _the man of the moment_, and _notre jeunesse_ (1904), the first of his plays to be represented at the theatre francais; _monsieur piegois_ (1905); and, in collaboration with lucien descaves, _l' attentat_ (1906). see edouard quet, _alfred capus_ (1904), with appreciations by various authors, in the series of _celebrites d' aujourd'hui_.