Delestre-Poirson, Charles-Gaspard
(1790–1859)> LIBRETTIST
Delestre-Poirson, Charles-Gaspard (22 August 1790, Paris; 19 November 1859, Paris), librettist, started his literary career in the odic vein with a poem celebrating Napoleon ’s marriage in 1810, but he turned to writing for the theatre during the Restoration by entering into a very profitable contract with Eugène Scribe whereby the latter was to offer his texts only to the Gymnase Theatre of which Poirson had become director in 1820. Since Scribe was not free to submit his works to other…