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Le Mariage d’Olympe

work by Augier

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French literature

  • Battle of Sluis during the Hundred Years' War
    In French literature: Drama

    …one of his best-known plays, Le Mariage d’Olympe (1855; “The Marriage of Olympia”), which proposes that what makes a woman into a prostitute in the first place is an innate propensity to vice. On the other hand, Augier’s treatment of the venality of the press and the corruption of financiers…

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