# Gaston Arman de Caillavet

Gaston Arman de Caillavet (13 March 1869 – 13 January 1915) was a French playwright.

## Early life

Gaston Arman de Caillavet was born on 13 March 1869. He was the son of Albert Arman de Caillavet and Léontine Lippmann. His maternal grandfather, Auguste Lippmann, was a banker of Jewish descent.

## Career

De Caillavet was a playwright. From 1901 to 1915, he collaborated with Robert de Flers on many works, including light and witty operettas or comédies de boulevard, many of which were great successes.

## Personal life

In April 1893 he married Jeanne Pouquet. He was a close friend of Marcel Proust who found in him and his fiancée, Jeanne Pouquet, a model of the relationship between Robert de Saint-Loup and Gilberte in his famous novel In Search of Lost Time.
Gaston and Jeanne had only one daughter, Simone, who married (second wedding) André Maurois, future biographer of Proust.

## Works

* Les travaux d'Hercule, opéra bouffe in three acts, with Robert de Flers, music by Claude Terrasse, 1901
* Le Cœur a ses raisons..., comedy in one act, with Robert de Flers, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre de la Renaissance on 13 May 1902
* Le Sire de Vergy, opéra bouffe in three acts, with Robert de Flers, music by Claude Terrasse, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre des Variétés on 15 April 1903
* Les Sentiers de la vertu, comedy in three acts, with Robert de Flers, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre des Nouveautés on 7 December 1903
* La Montansier, historic comedy in 4 acts and a prologue, with Robert de Flers and Henry Ibels, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre de la Gaîté on 24 March 1904
* Monsieur de La Palisse, opéra-bouffe in three acts, with Robert de Flers, music by Claude Terrasse, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre des Variétés on 2 November 1904
* L'ange du foyer, comedy in three acts, with Robert de Flers, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre des Nouveautés on 19 March 1905
* La Chance du mari, comedy in one act, with Robert de Flers, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre du Gymnase on 16 May 1906
* Miquette et sa mère, comedy in three acts, with Robert de Flers, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre des Variétés on 2 November 1906
* Fortunio, opera in four acts and five tableaux, after Le Chandelier by Alfred de Musset, with Robert de Flers, music by André Messager, premiered in Paris at the Opéra-Comique on 5 June 1907
* L'Amour veille, comedy in four acts, with Robert de Flers, premiered in Paris at the Comédie-Française on 1 October 1907
* L'éventail, comedy in four acts, with Robert de Flers, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre du Gymnase on 29 October 1907
* Le Roi, comedy in four acts, with Robert de Flers and Emmanuel Arène, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre des Variétés on 24 April 1908
* L'âne de Buridan, comedy in three acts, with Robert de Flers, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre du Gymnase on 19 February 1909
* Le Bois sacré, comedy in three acts, with Robert de Flers, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre des Variétés on 22 March 1910
* La Vendetta, opera in three acts, with Robert de Flers, after a novel by Loriot-Lecaudey, music by Jean Nouguès, premiered at the Opéra de Marseille on 27 January 1911
* Papa, comedy in three acts, with Robert de Flers, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre du Gymnase on 11 February 1911
* Primerose, comedy in three acts, with Robert de Flers, premiered in Paris at the Comédie-Française on 9 October 1911
* L'Habit vert, comedy in four acts, with Robert de Flers, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre des Variétés on 16 November 1912
* La belle aventure, comedy in three acts, with Robert de Flers and Étienne Rey, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre du Vaudeville on 23 December 1913
* Béatrice, opera in four acts, with Robert de Flers, after a story by Charles Nodier, music by André Messager, 1914
* Monsieur Brotonneau, play in three acts, with Robert de Flers, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin on 8 April 1914
* Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied, ballet in two acts and three tableaux, with Robert de Flers, music by Gabriel Pierné, 1923
* Le Jardin du paradis, musical story in four acts after Hans Christian Andersen, with Robert de Flers, music by Alfred Bruneau, 1923

## Filmography

* Il bosco sacro, directed by Carmine Gallone (Italy, 1915, based on the play Le Bois sacré)
* Hans bröllopsnatt [sv], directed by Mauritz Stiller (Sweden, 1915, based on the play La belle aventure)
* The Beautiful Adventure, directed by Dell Henderson (1917, based on the play La belle aventure)
* L'asino di Buridano, directed by Eleuterio Rodolfi (Italy, 1917, based on the play L'Âne de Buridan)
* Love Watches, directed by Henry Houry (1918, based on the play L'amour veille)
* Primerose, directed by Mario Caserini (Italy, 1919, based on the play Primerose)
* The King on Main Street, directed by Monta Bell (1925, based on the play Le Roi)
* The Beautiful Adventure, directed by Reinhold Schünzel (Germany, 1932, based on the play La belle aventure)
** The Beautiful Adventure, directed by Reinhold Schünzel and Roger Le Bon (French, 1932, based on the play La belle aventure)
* Buridan's Donkey, directed by Alexandre Ryder (France, 1932, based on the play L'Âne de Buridan)
* Primerose, directed by René Guissart (France, 1934, based on the play Primerose)
* Miquette, directed by Henri Diamant-Berger (France, 1934, based on the play Miquette et sa mère)
* Äventyret, directed by Per-Axel Branner (Sweden, 1936, based on the play La belle aventure)
* The King, directed by Pierre Colombier (France, 1936, based on the play Le Roi)
* L'Ange du foyer [fr], directed by Léon Mathot (France, 1937, based on the play L'Ange du foyer)
* L'amour veille [fr], directed by Henry Roussel (France, 1937, based on the play L'amour veille)
* The Green Jacket, directed by Roger Richebé (France, 1937, based on the play L'Habit vert)
* Monsieur Brotonneau, directed by Alexander Esway (France, 1939, based on the play Monsieur Brotonneau)
* Papacito lindo, directed by Fernando de Fuentes (Mexico, 1939, based on the play Miquette et sa mère)
* Sacred Woods, directed by Léon Mathot (France, 1939, based on the play Le Bois sacré)
* Miquette, directed by Jean Boyer (France, 1940, based on the play Miquette et sa mère)
* Dernière Aventure [fr], directed by Robert Péguy (France, 1942, based on the play Papa)
* The Beautiful Adventure, directed by Marc Allégret (France, 1942, based on the play La belle aventure)
* A Royal Affair, directed by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon (France, 1949, based on the play Le Roi)
* Miquette, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot (France, 1950, based on the play Miquette et sa mère)
* Bruden fra Dragstrup [da], directed by Annelise Reenberg (Denmark, 1955, based on the play La belle aventure)
* Ihana seikkailu [fi], directed by Toivo Särkkä (Finland, 1962, based on the play La belle aventure)