André de Lorde
French writer (1871-1942) · France · On the map · Writers · Lived 1869 to 1942 · aged 73
André de Latour, comte de Lorde (1869-1942) was a French playwright, the main author of the Grand Guignol plays from 1901 to 1926. His evening career was as a dramatist of terror; during daytimes he worked as a librarian in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal.
André de Lorde is read about 29 times a day, in 6 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 8 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 120 days, one point a day.
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Henry Roussel André wrote The System of Doctor Goudron (1913)
D. W. Griffith Directed The Lonely Villa (1909)
Marc Allégret Directed Night attack (1931)
Maurice Tourneur Directed The Man with Wax Faces (1914)
Henri Diamant-Berger Directed Education of a Prince (1927)
Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset Directed In the Cellar (1912)
Louise Lagrange André wrote L'homme mystérieux (1934)
Lucien Nonguet Directed Terrible Anguish (1906)
Émile-Bernard Donatien Directed My Priest Among the Rich (1932)- Michel Bernheim Directed Le Roman d'un spahi (1936)
Édouard-Émile Violet Directed Li-Hang le cruel (1920)
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About this person
He wrote 150 plays, all of them devoted mainly to the exploitation of terror and insanity, and a few novels. For plays the subject matter of which concerned mental illness he sometimes collaborated with psychologist Alfred Binet, the developer of IQ testing.
