Wailly, Armand-François-Léon de
(1804–1863)> LIBRETTIST
Wailly, Armand-François-Léon de (28 July 1804, Paris; 1863), librettist, published novels, biographies, criticism, and an incredible number of translations that included Tom Jones (1841), Tristram Shandy (1848), five volumes of Sir Walter Scott (1848-49), and the poetry of Robert Burns . He did articles on the latter’s life and works for the Revue des deux mondes , the same journal that printed his study of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Yet Wailly found time to write for the theatre, and he did an…