Émile Moreau (playwright)

Émile Moreau
Born Marie-Jules-Émile Moreau
8 December 1852
Brienon-sur-Armançon (Yonne)
Died 27 December 1922(1922-12-27) (aged 70)
Brienon-sur-Armançon
Occupation playwright, librettist

Marie-Jules-Émile Moreau (8 December 1852 – 27 December 1922),[1] better known as Émile Moreau, was a 19th–20th century French playwright and librettist.

Biography

Aged 17 he volunteered for the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 and participated to the Côte-d'Or and Armée de l'Est campaigns with general Bourbaki.[2]

In 1887 he was awarded a poetry prize by the Académie française for Pallas Athénée.[3]

The composer Paul Vidal won the first prix de Rome in 1883 with his cantata Le Gladiateur on a libretto by Moreau, and Auguste Chapuis the prix Rossini in 1886 with Les Jardins d'Armide.

He has sometimes been confused with Émile Moreau,[4] the French businessman who was one of the co-founders of the Indian bookstore chain A. H. Wheeler & Co.

Theatre

Bibliography

  • Manfred Le Gant de Conradin, Didot, 1886
  • Le Secret de Saint Louis, Delagrave

References

  1. Notice d'autorité de la BNF
  2. Programme of Quo vadis ?, 1901.
  3. Supplement of Le Figaro, 28 November 1887 at Gallica.
  4. Anu Kumar, The mysterious European businessman who gave India its iconic railway book stalls, Quartz India. Retrieved on 9 March 2017.
  5. "The latest Cleopatra" (PDF). New York Times. 24 October 1890. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
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