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the man who turned adultery into a physics problem with doors as the variables.
means georges feydeau was a french playwright who perfected farce built on mistaken identity, slamming doors, and impeccably timed lies collapsing on each other.
from born in paris in 1862, feydeau wrote dozens of boulevard comedies in the belle epoque, engineering plots like clockwork so that one lie at 8pm guarantees chaos by 8:15.
door countsome plays specify a dozen doors onstage
day joblost fortune gambling and collecting art
peak erawrote most hits between 1892 and 1914
real marriagehis own affairs mirrored his plots
for instance
the lady from maxim's — 1899 play, a doctor wakes up with a dancer in his bed
hotel paradiso — 1894 farce later filmed with alec guinness in 1966