Félix Galipaux

Born in Bordeaux in December 1860 and later active in Paris, Félix Galipaux built a varied career as a French actor, playwright, humorist, and novelist. Reference sources also note his work as a violinist, which fits the broad, theatrical range of his public life.

He became especially associated with comic stage monologues and with the popular theater world of Paris. Accounts of his career say he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, chose the Palais-Royal rather than the Comédie-Française, and later worked at the Théâtre de la Renaissance. Library and film reference sources also credit him with writing dozens of plays and publishing under the pseudonym Félix Mayran.

Today he is remembered as one of those energetic literary performers who did not stay in a single lane: he wrote, acted, entertained, and left traces in both print and early recorded performance. He died in Paris on December 7, 1931.