Charles Étienne Louis Ganderax (25 February 1855 – January 1940) was a French journalist and drama critic. He was literary editor of the ''Revue de Paris'' with Henri Meilhac, a member of the

Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

. A student at the

École Normale Supérieure École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...

(1873), agrégé de lettres (1876), he collaborated with ''Le Parlement'', ''

Le Figaro () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It was named after Figaro, a character in several plays by polymath Pierre Beaumarchais, Beaumarchais (1732–1799): ''Le Barbier de Séville'', ''The Guilty Mother, La Mère coupable'', ...

'', the '' Revue bleue'', ''L’Univers illustré'', ''La Vie parisienne'', ''Le Gaulois'', ''Revue illustrée'', '' Revue des deux mondes'' etc.

Works

* ''Miss Fanfare''
''Pepa''
comedy in 3 acts (with Henri Meilhac), created at the Comédie-Française, 31 October 1888 ;Prefaces *

Georges Bizet Georges Bizet (; 25 October 18383 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic music, Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, ''Carmen'', w ...

, ''Lettres... Impressions de Rome, 1857-1860. La Commune, 1871.'' *1904: ''Contes parisiens du second Empire'' (1866)...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gandenax, Louis 19th-century French journalists French male journalists 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 20th-century French journalists French theatre critics École Normale Supérieure alumni Writers from Paris 1855 births 1940 deaths 19th-century French male writers