Franc-Nohain

Franc-Nohain studied at Lycée Janson-de-Sailly. The recorded working language is French. Positions recorded include editor-in-chief. Work by Franc-Nohain is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art. Distinctions recorded are Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française, Commander of the Legion of Honour and Alfred Née Award.

Maurice Étienne Legrand was born in 1872 in Corbigny; his father was an overseer-agent. He attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly. In the late 1880s he contributed poems to the literary magazine Potache-Revue (potache being slang for 'schoolkid'), along with André Gide, Léon Blum, Pierre Louÿs, Maurice Quillot and others. Later, he published in the journal Le Chat noir. He also founded Le Canard sauvage and became the editor of L'Écho de Paris. He also became a lawyer and deputy prefect. His literary pseudonym Franc-Nohain was derived from the Nohain river, where he had spent many happy hours as a child. With Alfred Jarry and Claude Terrasse he co-founded the Théatre des Pantins, which in 1898 was the site of marionette performances of Jarry's Ubu Roi. He is best remembered now as the librettist for some operettas by Terrasse, and for the opera L'heure espagnole by Maurice Ravel, adapted from his own comedy. He had two sons: the actor Claude Dauphin, and the songwriter and television producer/director Jean Nohain (aka Jaboune). He died in Paris in October 1934, aged 61.

• L'Heure espagnole, 1904 • Un jardin sur l'Oronte, 1922, adapted from a novel of the same name by Maurice Barrès • Le Chapeau chinois, 1931

Franc-Nohain was recorded at birth as Maurice Étienne Legrand. He also worked under the names Franc-Nohain, Pickwick and Oncle Bertrand. The authorities additionally record the heading Legrand, Maurice-Étienne. His recorded language was French. He married Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain. 2 children are recorded: Jean Nohain and Claude Dauphin.

Franc-Nohain is recorded as having received Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française, Commander of the Legion of Honour and Alfred Née Award. Recognition and collections. Franc-Nohain received Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française, Commander of the Legion of Honour and Alfred Née Award.