Delavigne, Germain

Delavigne, Germain (1 February 1790, Giverny; 30 November 1868, Montmorency), librettist, was a younger brother of the well-known dramatist, Casimir Delavigne. He attended the collège Saint-Barbe, where Eugène Scribe was one of his schoolmates. The two youths formed a lifelong friendship that evolved into a partnership producing plays and opera librettos used by some of the leading composers of the time. Although Germain Delavigne held a government position between 1831 and 1848, his literary…