After his death, Pablo Picasso, fascinated with Jarry, acquired his pistol and wore it on his nocturnal expeditions in Paris, and later bought many of his manuscripts as well as executing a fine drawing of him.

At 17 Jarry passed his baccalauréat and moved to Paris to prepare for admission to the École Normale Supérieure.

Jarry returned to Paris and applied himself to drinking, writing, and the company of friends who appreciated his witty, sweet-tempered, and unpredictable conversation.

One of the most significant common precursors is Alfred Jarry whose wild, irreverent, and lascivious Ubu plays scandalized Paris in the 1890s.

At the play's first night in Paris, on December 10, 1896, Jarry opened with a lengthy, unencouraging and buck-passing speech before the curtain, much to the boredom of the audience.

* Alfred Jarry shocked Paris in 1896 with the first of his absurdistic Ubu plays: Ubu Roi.

** J. Jarry, Essai sur les œuvres dramatiques de Jean Rotrou ( Paris and Lille, 1868 )

Alfred Jarry ( 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907 ) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany ; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side.

From then on, Jarry would always speak in this style.

Living in worsening poverty, neglecting his health, and drinking excessively, Jarry went on to write what is often cited as the first cyborg sex novel, Le Surmâle ( The Supermale ), which is partly a satire on the Symbolist ideal of self-transcendence.

Jarry once wrote, expressing some of the bizarre logic of ' pataphysics, " If you let a coin fall and it falls, the next time it is just by an infinite coincidence that it will fall again the same way ; hundreds of other coins on other hands will follow this pattern in an infinitely unimaginable fashion ".

It was copied by the famous calligraphist Nicolas Jarry in a magnificent manuscript, on each page of which was a flower painted by Nicolas Robert, and was presented to Julie on her fête day in 1641.

The show, put on by puppeteer and filmmaker Demian, was an adaptation of Ubu on the Hill, an 1888 play by Alfred Jarry.

He doubled off Montreal Expos pitcher Larry Jaster in the first inning of the Expos ' inaugural home game, on April 14, 1969, at Jarry Park.

Ubu Roi follows and explores his political, martial and felonious exploits, offering parodic adaptations of situations and plot-lines from Shakespearean drama, including Macbeth, Hamlet and Richard III: like Macbeth, Ubu — on the urging of his wife — murders the king who helped him and usurps his throne, and is in turn defeated and killed by his son ; Jarry also adapts the ghost of the dead king and Fortinbras's revolt from Hamlet, Buckingham's refusal of reward for assisting a usurpation from Richard III and The Winter's Tale's bear.

Following a September call-up, Carter made his major league debut in Jarry Park in Montreal in the second game of a double header against the New York Mets on September 16.

The work of Jarry, the Surrealists, Antonin Artaud, Luigi Pirandello and so on also influenced the work of playwrights from the Theatre of the Absurd.

On 24 June 1965, Jarry Park hosted the great show on Saint John Baptiste Day, ( La Saint-Jean Baptiste ), the French-Canadian annual celebration day.

Work on the Orange line began on May 23, 1962 on Berri Street just south of Jarry Street.

Jarry is a station on the Orange Line of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal ( STM ).

The street was built on land belonging to Stanislas Jarry père, a descendant of Bernard Jarry, who was mayor of the village in 1907.

In the early 1960s, with the arrival of director Jan Grossman, set designer Libor Fára and a stage hand and later dramaturg and playwright Václav Havel, the Theatre on the Balustrade became the centre of the Czech form of the absurd theatre ( V. Havel: The Garden Party, Memorandum, Alfred Jarry: King Ubu, Franz Kafka: Process ).

It is centered on Saint Laurent Boulevard between Jean Talon Street and St. Zotique Street in the borough of Rosemont – La Petite-Patrie, south of Villeray and Jarry Park.

* November 1-Alfred Jarry, French dramatist ( born 1873 )

* Jannarone, Kimberly, " The Theater Before Its Double: Artaud Directs in the Alfred Jarry Theater ," Theatre Survey 46. 2 ( November 2005 ), 247-273.

* 1873 – Alfred Jarry, French playwright ( d. 1907 )

A less serious, but ( some might say ) even more extremist anti-razor is ' Pataphysics, the " science of imaginary solutions " invented by Alfred Jarry ( 1873 – 1907 ).

* Alfred Jarry ( 1873 – 1907 )

The term was coined and the concept created by French writer Alfred Jarry ( 1873 – 1907 ), who defined ' pataphysics as " the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments.

* September 8-Alfred Jarry, dramatist ( died 1907 )

* Alfred Jarry ( 1873 – 1907 ), writer

* Alfred Jarry ( 1873 – 1907 ), writer ( birthplace )

Père Ubu ( later: Ubu Roi ), from a drawing by Alfred Jarry

Jarry moved into a flat which the landlord had created through the unusual expedient of subdividing a larger flat by means of a horizontal rather than a vertical partition.

* Ubu Roi, a comic-absurdist play by Alfred Jarry, contains numerous references to coprophagy / scatology.

The Alfred Jarry Theatre, founded by Antonin Artaud and Roger Vitrac, housed several Absurdist plays, including ones by Ionesco and Adamov.

* Ubu, the enigmatic central figure of a series of French plays by Alfred Jarry, including Ubu Roi, and subsequent plays Ubu Cocu ( Ubu Cuckolded ) and Ubu Enchaîné ( Ubu Enchained )

He led off the April 14, 1969 game against the Montreal Expos at Jarry Park by lining out to second baseman Gary Sutherland.

These puns include patte à physique ( leg of physics ), as interpreted by Jarry scholars Keith Beaumont and Roger Shattuck, pas ta physique ( not your physics ), and pâte à physique ( physics pastry dough ).

Jarry later defined it as " the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments.

He read eclectically, inspired by authors and artists such as Seneca, Shakespeare, Poe, Lautréamont, Alfred Jarry, and André Masson.

" From the 19th century he included the Walloon play Tati l ' Pèriquî by E. Remouchamps and the avant-garde ' Ubu roi ' by A. Jarry.

Ubu Roi ( Ubu the King ) is a play by Alfred Jarry, premiered in 1896.

It is the first of three stylised burlesques in which Jarry satirises power, greed, and their evil practices — in particular the propensity of the complacent bourgeois to abuse the authority engendered by success.

" It was as a student in 1888, at the age of fifteen, that Jarry perused Les Polonais, a brief teacher-ridiculing farce by the brothers Henri ( of whom he was a good friend ) and Charles Morin.