Léon Lévy Brunswick (20 April 1805, in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

– 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 ...

, Louis-Émile Vanderburch, and Arthur de Beauplan such as '' Boccaccio, or the Prince of Palmero'' by Franz von Suppé. But it is with

Adolphe de Leuven Adolphe de Leuven (29 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 ...

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 post ...

(''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