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Ludovic Halévy was a French librettist and novelist who, in collaboration with Henri Meilhac, wrote the librettos for most of the operettas of Jacques Offenbach and who also wrote satiric comedies about contemporary Parisian life. The son of the writer Léon Halévy and the nephew of the operatic.
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Ludovic Halévy has 134 books on Goodreads with 684 ratings. Ludovic Halévy’s most popular book is عائلة كاردينال.
Sep 26, 2016 · The young Ludovic, thanks to his family background, and despite his poor academic performance, found employment in the French Civil Service. His heart, though, was in his writing. In 1855 he had his first success with Ba-ta-clan, a one-act “Chinese Musical,” with music by Jacques Offenbach.
In the 1870s Edgar Degas produced a series of monotypes that illustrated stories by Ludovic Halévy known under the generic title of La Famille Cardinal.1 The author’s lively accounts of backstage intrigue at the Paris Opera suited Degas’s interests of the period and can be read as a cynical, but light-hearted complement to the depictions of repe...
Jun 23, 1996 · The second generation produced Geneviève (1849-1926), Fromental's daughter, Georges Bizet's wife and a friend of Marcel Proust who used her as a model for the Duchesse de Guermantes ; Ludovic (1834-1908), the author together with Henri Mailhac of the most famous libretti by Offenbach ; and Anatole Prévost-Paradol (1829-1870), Léon's natural ...
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Ludovic Halévy’s books. Average rating: 3.69 · 231 ratings · 29 reviews · 132 distinct works • Similar authors. More books by Ludovic Halévy… Quotes by Ludovic Halévy (?) “Love is a rebellious bird, that nobody can tame, and you call him quite in vain, if it suits him not to come.” ― Ludovic Halévy. tags: love, opera. 1316 likes. Like.
Halévy was also a skilled writer of novels and short stories. The best of his fiction includes La Famille Cardinal (1883), a study of lower-class Parisian life during the early years of the Third Republic, and the sentimental novel L’Abbé Constantin (1882), which was a huge success with the public.
