French "playwright, novelist, journalist, lawyer".
"He wrote for the "theatre de boulevard", a genre meant to entertain middle-class Parisian audiences."
When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach too near and gaze on it in shop windows."
The investigator should have a robust faith -- and yet not believe.
"To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give."
"Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all."
In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.
