Barbier, Jules

Barbier, Jules (8 March 1825, Paris; 16 January 1901, Paris), librettist, began to write for the theatre at age 13; he had his La Voix de la France produced in 1838. He had scarcely finished his schooling, moreover, when he gave L’Ombre de Molière to the Comédie-Française, and he never stopped writing for the theatres of Paris as long as he could pick up a pen. It would be an extremely onerous task to present a complete list of all the dramatic pieces that he did alone or in collaboration for…