Jules Barbier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jules Barbier

French writer

Date of Birth: 08-Mar-1825

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 16-Jan-1901

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, choreographer, librettist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Paul Jules Barbier (8 March 1825 – 16 January 1901) was a French poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carré.
He was a noted Parisian bon vivant and man of letters.His libretti for extant operas (those co-written with Carré are shown with an asterisk) include: Charles Gounod: La Colombe, Faust (*), Le médecin malgré lui (*), Philémon et Baucis, Polyeucte, La reine de Saba and Roméo et Juliette (*) Victor Massé: Galathée Les Saisons (*) Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le pardon de Ploërmel (later revised as Dinorah) Jacques Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann Camille Saint-Saëns: Le timbre d'argent Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet (*), Mignon (*) and Françoise de Rimini (*).He also wrote the libretto for La Guzla de l'Émir, a one-act comic opera by Georges Bizet.
This was never performed and probably destroyed. He wrote the scenario for Léo Delibes' ballet Sylvia.
Charles Gounod wrote incidental music to Barbier's play Jeanne d'Arc, and the libretto to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's opera The Maid of Orleans was partially based on it.



Alternative names	legal name: Gaspard-Félix Tournachon pseudonym: Nadar
Description	French photographer, caricaturist, writer and balloonist
Date of birth/death	6 April 1820	20 March 1910 / 21 March 1910
Location of birth/death	Paris	former 4th arrondissement of Paris
Work period	1854–1910
Work location	Paris
Authority control	: Q40116 VIAF: 84808952 ISNI: 0000 0001 2141 8535 ULAN: 500005199 LCCN: n50014563 NLA: 35553829 WorldCat