Barbier, Henri-Auguste
(1805–1882)> LIBRETTIST
Barbier, Henri-Auguste (29 April 1805, Paris; 13 February 1882, Nice), librettist, studied law upon completion of his studies at the lycée Henri IV, but his publication of a historical novel entitled Les Mauvais Garçons (1830 with Alphonse Royer indicated more exactly the directions that his ambition was to follow. After the revolution of 1830, he wrote a satire for the Revue de Paris assailing the false friends of liberty and making him famous for his uninhibited attack upon these…