Jacques Copeau was a French theatre director, producer, actor, and dramatist. Before he founded the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris, he wrote theatre reviews for several Parisian journals, worked at the Georges Petit Gallery where he organized exhibits of artists' works and helped found the Nouvelle Revue Française in 1909, along with writer friends, such as André Gide and Jean Schlumberger.
Jacques Copeau, 1936
Set design by Louis Jouvet for Copeau's production of The Brothers Karamazov
Copeau's advertising poster for the opening of the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier was a veritable manifesto; a call against the overladen productions of the established theatres in Paris.
Set design by Louis Jouvet for Copeau's production of Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement [fr]
La Nouvelle Revue Française is a literary magazine based in France. In France, it is often referred to as the NRF.
Nouvelle Revue Française