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Édouard Martin
1828–1866
A lively 19th-century French dramatist, he is best remembered for brisk, funny stage comedies written with some of the era’s most popular theatrical collaborators. His work helped shape the light, fast-moving spirit of Second Empire theater.
1 Audiobook
Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon: Comédie en quatre actes
by Eugène Labiche, Édouard Martin
About the author
Born in Paris, this French playwright was active in the mid-1800s and built his reputation in the theater rather than the novel. Library records list him as Édouard Martin (1828?–1866), while reference works identify the dramatist Édouard Joseph Martin as born on July 19, 1825, and dead in Paris on July 13, 1866, so the exact birth year is not completely consistent across sources.
He became known for comedies and vaudevilles, often written in collaboration with other successful dramatists, especially Eugène Labiche, Albert Monnier, and Paul Siraudin. His plays were part of the busy popular stage culture of Paris, where quick wit, misunderstandings, and social satire drew large audiences.
Today, he is remembered mainly through theater history, library catalogs, and surviving editions of his plays. For audiobook listeners, he belongs to that energetic world of 19th-century French comic writing where dialogue, timing, and collaboration mattered as much as plot.