Saint-Georges, Jules-Henri Vernoyde (7 November 1799, Paris; 23 December 1875, Paris), librettist, wrote his first libretto entitled Saint-Louis in 1823 and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of his time as far as the stage was concerned. He created the words for well over 100 operas and comic operas among which two of the best known for the Opéra-Comique were Domenico Gaetano Donizetti’s La Fille du régiment (1840) and Daniel Auber’s Les Diamants de la couronne (1841). His…