Published : 2026-08-07

Une belle journée, un beau soir… A Note on Henry Céard and Naturalism in Theatre

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In 1881, Henry Céard, one of the writers in the school of naturalism, published a small novel entitled Une belle journée; ten years later, he attended the performance of a short one-act play of a comparable title, Un beau soir, by Maurice Vaucaire, and wrote a review in the newspaper L’Événement. Drawing on those two texts, this study seeks to show how naturalist writers and playwrights managed to confront masculine and feminine sensibilities. Inspired by Schopenhauerism, they contributed to fin-de-siècle pessimism, but also to a fierce critique of social conventions. The founder of the Théâtre-libre, Antoine, was their rallying point in this endeavour.

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Céard, naturalism, theatre, Antoine, marriage, couple



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Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
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