OBITUARY.
" INVENTOR OF DREADNOUGHT. ' Dy Telcirraph—Preta Association—Copyright r Roma, December 23. :1 Tho death is announced of General f Vittorio Cuiicbcrti, inventor of the .. Dreadnought. ;1 A NOTED PLAYWRIGHT. p Perls, December 23. It. Jules Claretie, director of the P Comcdio Francais, is dead. if. Jules Arsene Arnaiul Ciarclie was ' born at Limoges, in December, 18-10, and ! " received his education at the Bonaparte r Lyceum, Paris, lie was for some lime war correspondent in .1 inly and «l Jlelz, and way an .officer of the Legion of lion our. He was a member of (he French e Academy, and also held I lie position of ~ lion, president of the Society of (lenlle- '" men of Letters ami of the French Revolud tionary Society. Tho late 11. Clnretie ;, had many publications to his credit, and I. was a playwright of some note, liis plays ~ including several dramas and comedies, ' and also two operas. At Ihe time of his a death lie was director of the Comedie i- Francais (a. position he had held since i ISS.i) and a member of the Parisian -~ journalists' Association of Republican I Journalists.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1941, 26 December 1913, Page 7
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186OBITUARY. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1941, 26 December 1913, Page 7
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