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

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.

Jarry lived in his ' pataphysical world until his death in Paris on 1 November 1907 of tuberculosis, aggravated by drug and alcohol use.

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 )

The play brought fame to the 23-year-old Jarry, and he immersed himself in the fiction he had created.

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.

Experimental theatre is a general term for various movements in Western theatre that began in the late 19th century with Alfred Jarry and his Ubu plays as a rejection of both the age in particular and, in general, the dominant ways of writing and producing plays.

Bouraq Airlines was established in April 1970 as a privately-owned company by Jarry Albert Sumendap, and it stayed in the possession of his family ever since.

While the company is highly regarded for original plays such as Action Movie: The Play and Godbaby, Defiant Theatre received notable attention for productions of plays by Caryl Churchill, Alfred Jarry, Sarah Kane, and William Shakespeare.

Jarry and classmate Henri Morin wrote a play they called Les Polonais and performed it with marionettes in the home of one of their friends.

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.

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.

The authors she has translated and who are represented in the collection include Jean Hamburger ( Le Journal de William Harvey ), Eugene Ionesco, Alfred Jarry, Pierre Lauer, Robert Pinget, Raymond Queneau, Nathalie Sarraute and Stefan Themerson.

This station is named for rue Jarry, which in turn commemorates Bernard Bleignier dit Jarry, who received a concession in 1700 that later became the village of Saint-Laurent.

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

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.

Best known for his play Ubu Roi ( 1896 ), which is often cited as a forerunner to the surrealist theatre of the 1920s and 1930s, Jarry wrote in a variety of genres and styles.

A precociously brilliant student, Jarry enthralled his classmates with a gift for pranks and troublemaking.

This is a work that bridges the gap between serious symbolic meaning and the type of critical absurdity with which Jarry would soon become associated.

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

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.

The diminutive Jarry could just manage to stand up in the place, but guests had to bend or crouch.

Jarry also took to carrying a loaded pistol.

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

Montreal's Jarry Park was smallest of all the modern ballparks, with a seating capacity of about 28, 000.

At the time of Jarry Park's closing in 1977, Fenway's capacity was listed ( according to Sporting News Baseball Guides ) at 33, 513, making it the smallest in the majors at that point.

Jarry has an industrial free-port.

The home is located at 8232 avenue de Gaspe south of rue de Guizot Est and near Jarry Park and close to Delorimier Stadium, where Robinson played for the Montreal Royals during 1946.

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

Meeting the young writer Jacques Vaché, Breton felt that Vaché was the spiritual son of writer and pataphysics founder Alfred Jarry.

Later Breton wrote, " In literature, I was successively taken with Rimbaud, with Jarry, with Apollinaire, with Nouveau, with Lautréamont, but it is Jacques Vaché to whom I owe the most.

During World War I he worked in a neurological ward in Nantes, where he met the devotee of Alfred Jarry, Jacques Vaché, whose anti-social attitude and disdain for established artistic tradition influenced Breton considerably.

Artists ' associations such as Les Nabis and the Incoherents were formed and individuals including Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Brissaud, Alfred Jarry, Gen Paul, Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Suzanne Valadon, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Maurice Utrillo, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Théophile Steinlen, and African-American expatriates such as Langston Hughes worked in Montmartre and drew some of their inspiration from the area.

On this issue, the President received a detailed report from his U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, who had just returned from Paris, and Mr. Kennedy asked Stevenson to search for a face-saving way -- for both Paris and Tunis -- out of the imbroglio.

In 1802, at the personal request of Napoleon, Canova returned to Paris to model a bust of the first consul.

Salieri then returned to Paris for the premiere of his tragédie lyrique Les Horaces ( The Horati ) which proved a failure.

Napoleon returned to Paris for review, was exonerated, promoted to Captain and given leave to escort his sister, a schoolgirl, back to Corsica at state expense.

Nin left Paris in the late summer of 1939, when residents from overseas were urged to leave France due to the upcoming war and returned to New York City with Guiler ( who was, on his own wish, all but edited out of her diaries published in her lifetime and whose role in her life is therefore difficult to gauge ).

According to Volume I of her diaries, 1931 – 1934, published in 1966 ( Stuhlmann ), Nin first came across erotica when she returned to Paris with her mother and two brothers in her late teens.

Philip returned to Paris triumphant, marching his captive prisoners behind him in a long procession, as his grateful subjects came out to greet the victorious king.

The 1783 Treaty of Paris, which ended the war, returned the island to Britain.

David was allowed to stay at the French Academy in Rome for an extra year, but after 5 years in Rome, he returned to Paris.

After serving briefly during the Franco-Prussian War, he returned to civilian duties in Paris during 1872.

When they returned to Paris, the crowd greeted them in silence.

In December 1929, after nearly two years in Paris, Blair returned to England and went directly to his parents ' house in Southwold, which was to remain his base for the next five years.

He returned to teaching at Hayes and prepared for the publication of his book, now known as Down and Out in Paris and London.

One indication of Guadeloupe's prosperity at this time is that in the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ), France, defeated in war, again, agreed to abandon its territorial claims in Canada if the British returned Guadeloupe, which was captured in 1759.

He returned to Paris in the 1860s to work on the influential newspaper, Le Journal des Débats, which he edited from 1871 to 1876.

He returned to Paris after the publication of his first book during 1894.

He returned to Europe for a reunion with Hergé in 1981, and settled in Paris in 1985, where he died in 1998.

The emerald chalice at Genoa, which was obtained during the Crusades at Caesarea Maritima at great cost, has been less championed as the Holy Grail since an accident on the road, while it was being returned from Paris after the fall of Napoleon, revealed that the emerald was green glass.

After uneventful trips to Orléans and his hometown of Noyon, Calvin returned to Paris in October 1533.

After the death of Cosimo II de ' Medici in 1621, he returned to Nancy where he lived for the rest of his life, visiting Paris and the Netherlands later in the decade.

Having spent his formative years in France, where he attended the American School of Paris, he returned to the United States to attend the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1966.

Marx returned to Paris, which was then under the grip of both a reactionary counter-revolution and a cholera epidemic, and was soon expelled by the city authorities who considered him a political threat.

Finally he returned to Paris.