Lucien Besnard (19 January 1872 â 1955) was a French playwright and drama critic.
Besnard was born in Nonancourt on 19 January 1872. He held a doctorate in law. He also studied Russian at the ÃÂcole des langues orientales.
His play Le Coeur partagé was premiered on 6 December 1926 in Paris by the Comédie-Française at the Salle Richelieu, and ran until 1931. His 1927 play Dans l'ombre du harem was adapted the following year into a silent film of the same name (In the Shadow of the Harem).
In 1932, Besnard adapted Im weiÃÂen RöÃÂl, a German operetta by Ralph Benatzky, into French as L'Auberge du Cheval Blanc.
Besnard died in Paris in 1955. He is buried at Vaugirard Cemetery in Paris.
The Académie Française awarded Lucien Besnard two prizes: