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Théodore Barrière (1823–1877)
Barrière, Théodore (bä-rē-ãr’). A French dramatist, born in Paris, 1823; died there, Oct. 16, 1877. In collaboration with others he supplied the French stage with a great number of dramas and comedies, some of which met with much favor, especially ‘Bohemian Life’ (1848, with Murger); ‘The Maids of Marble’ (1853, with Thiboust), a counterpart to Dumas’s ‘La Dame aux Camélias’; and ‘The Spurious Men of Honor’ (1856, with Capendu), a scathing satire and his masterpiece.