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French playwright From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marie-Jules-Émile Moreau (8 December 1852 – 27 December 1922),[1] better known as Émile Moreau, was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist.
Émile Moreau | |
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| Born | Marie-Jules-Émile Moreau 8 December 1852 |
| Died | 27 December 1922 (aged 70) Brienon-sur-Armançon |
| Occupation(s) | playwright, librettist |
Aged 17 he volunteered for the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 and participated to the Côte-d'Or and Armée de l'Est campaigns with general Bourbaki.[2]
In 1887 he was awarded a poetry prize by the Académie française for Pallas Athénée.[3]
The composer Paul Vidal won the first prix de Rome in 1883 with his cantata Le Gladiateur on a libretto by Moreau, and Auguste Chapuis the prix Rossini in 1886 with Les Jardins d'Armide.
He has sometimes been confused with Émile Moreau,[4] the French businessman who was one of the co-founders of the Indian bookstore chain A. H. Wheeler & Co.
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