Leuven, Adolphe, Count Ribbing

Leuven, Adolphe, Count Ribbing , DIT de (1800, ?; 14 April 1884, Paris), librettist, was the son of Count Ribbing, who had been banished from Sweden in 1792 and had then come to live in France. Young de Leuven met Alexandre Dumas in 1825 at Villers-Cotterets, and he collaborated with him on his first work for the theatre, a vaudeville in a single act entitled La Chasse et l’amour . After this inauspicious start, de Leuven went on to do 200 or so titles for the theatres of Paris during his…