Étienne Rey:
(1 March 1879 – 16 February 1965).
French writer, dramatist and literary critic and one of the first best-seller writers of the Grasset publisher.
His play La belle aventure, co-written with Robert de Flers and Gaston Arman de Caillavet was premiered in 1913 at the Théâtre du Vaudeville, and played again numerous times. It has been adapted to the screen in 1917, 1932 and 1942 under the title The Beautiful Adventure.
Historical truth is made of the silence of the dead.
The burden of slavery is often lighter than that of freedom.
