Dumanoir, Philippe-François

Dumanoir, Philippe-François , DIT Pinel (1806, La Guadaloupe; November 1865, Pau), librettist, came to Paris to complete his education in 1825, but he began to write almost immediately for the theatre. He worked with collaborators on most of the works that he had produced, and his compositions were created with such alacrity and regularity that he and his co-workers were able to complete more than a hundred titles by the time that he had finished his last play in 1864, Les Drames du cabaret…