Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie
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Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie was a French literary figure and director of the Théâtre Français.
Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie
Henri Cain
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Henri Cain was a French dramatist, opera and ballet librettist. He wrote over forty librettos from 1893 to his death, for many of the most prominent composers of the Parisian Belle Epoque.
Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie
…and others Claretie also wrote three operas for the music of Jules Massenet; La Navarraise (1894), based on his novel La cigarette and written with Henri Cain, Thérèse (1907), and Amadis (1922), a work begun by Massenet in 1895, but shelved and finished in the last years of his life and premiered posthumously…
Henri Caïn in 1882
Portrait of the French dramatist and librettist Henri Cain sitting at his desk; published in the theatrical magazine Le Théâtre, July 1899