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Oscar Méténier
Oscar Méténier (17 January 1859 – 9 February 1913) was a French playwright and novelist. In 1897 he founded "Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol" in Paris, planning it as a space for naturalist performance.
Life.
Born in Sancoins, Cher, the son of a police commissioner, Oscar Méténier at first followed his father into the police, as secretary to the commissariat of la Tour Saint-Jacques, in which role he was able to observe the morals of low-life Paris
- April–December – H. G. Wells' science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds" is serialized in "Pearson's Magazine" (London).
- April 13 – The Grand Guignol is opened in Paris by Oscar Méténier.
- May 19 – Oscar Wilde is released early this morning from Pentonville Prison in London (to which he has been transferred from Reading via Twyford the previous night). This afternoon he visits Hatchards bookshop briefly before catching an evening train to Newhaven "en route" to