Excerpt from La Cagnotte: Comedie-Vaudeville En Cinq Actes The life of eugene-marin Labiche was not wildly exciting, as one might imagine from reading the fantastic adventures which he was so fond of describing, and in consequence biographical details are few. He was born in Paris on May 5, 1815. His studies were carried on at the College Bourbon and the Ecole de Droit, but as he had no inclination to practice law his early work consisted of little stories in various news papers.