Marcel Achard
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Originating from the Lyon suburb of Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, he began as a village schoolteacher at seventeen before moving to Paris in 1919, where he worked as a prompter at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier and wrote for newspapers such as Le Figaro, adopting the pen name Marcel Achard at the start of his literary career. His first play appeared in 1922, and a 1923 production by Charles Dullin launched…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources