V
Victorien Sardou
writer
- Born:
- 1831-09-05, Paris, France
- Died:
- 1908-11-08, Paris, France
- Professions:
- writer
Biography
A September morning in 1831 delivered Victorien Sardou to the roar and perfume of Paris; by nightfall the city had already gained its future master of stage suspense. Ink ran faster in his veins than blood, and before the century closed he had conjured the heroines that still haunt us: Floria Tosca, the Nile’s Cleopatra, and the exiled Princess Romanoff. Between curtain calls he exchanged vows first with Marie Anne Corneille Soulié, then with Laurentine Éléonore Désirée de Moisson de Brécourt. On 8 November 1908 the same city that had witnessed his first cry lowered its lights for his last exit, leaving the Théâtre-Français a repertoire it can never exhaust.
