Léon Lévy Brunswick (20 April 1805, in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

– 29 July 1859, in Le Havre) was a French playwright. He started as a journalist before turning to theater. He is the author of many comedies with

Jean-François Bayard Jean-François Alfred Bayard (17 March 1796, Charolles, Saône-et-Loire – 20 February 1853, Paris) was a French playwright. He was the nephew of fellow playwright Eugène Scribe. Life As a law student and a lawyer's clerk, Bayard wrote with pa ...

Louis-Émile Vanderburch Louis-Émile Vanderburch (30 September 1794 – 30 March 1862) was a 19th-century French writer and playwright. The painter Dominique Joseph Vanderburch (1722–1785) was his grandfather. Biography After he started a career in teaching as a p ...

, and

Arthur de Beauplan Arthur de Beauplan (20 June 1823 – 11 May 1890 Bibliography * Louis Gustave Vapereau, ''Dictionnaire universel des littératures'', Paris, Hachette, 1893, Read on line ''Gallica'') * Christian Goubault, « Arthur de Beauplan » ''in'' Jo� ...

such as '' Boccaccio, or the Prince of Palmero'' by Franz von Suppé. But it is with

Adolphe de Leuven Adolphe de Leuven (30 September 1802 – 14 April 1884) was a French theatre director and a librettist. Also known as Grenvallet, and Count Adolph Ribbing. He was the illegitimate son of Adolph Ribbing, who was involved in the assassination of G ...

that he is known for his greatest successes, notably booklets of comic operas by

Adolphe Adam Adolphe Charles Adam (; 24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) was a French composer, teacher and music critic. A prolific composer for the theatre, he is best known today for his ballets ''Giselle'' (1841) and '' Le corsaire'' (1856), his operas ''Le pos ...

(''Le Brasseur de Preston,'' ''Le Postillon de Lonjumeau,'' ''Le Roi d'Yvetot''). He has also published under the pseudonym of Leo Lhérie.

Selected works

* With

: ''Le mariage au tambour. Comédie en trois actes, mêlée de chant''. (''Théâtre français en prose''. Series 4, 8.) Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1855, . * With Adolphe de Leuven, Adolphe Adam, Carl Friedrich Wittmann: ''Der Postillon von Lonjumeau. Komische Oper in drei Aufzügen.'' (''Reclams Universal-Bibliothek, 2749.''; ''Opernbücher in Reclams Universal-Bibliothek, 12.''; ''Reclams Universal-Bibliothek/Opernbücher, 12.'') Reclam, Leipzig um 1920, .

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* French opera librettists 19th-century French journalists French male journalists French male dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French male writers Writers from Paris 1805 births 1859 deaths Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery {{France-playwright-stub