Paul Ferrier

Paul Ferrier ( born March 29, 1843 in Montpellier, † 1928) was a French librettist and playwright.

Ferrier 1873 avocat with the pieces Chez l' and Les Incendies de Massoulard known. His greatest success as a playwright was the Vaudeville L'Art de les femmes tromper (1890), which he co-authored with Émile de Najac.

While his plays are largely forgotten, Ferrier has survived as a librettist. He wrote librettos for operettas by Gaston Serpette, Charles Lecocq, Louis Varney, André Messager, Gabriel Pierné, Victor Roger, Jacques Offenbach and others, and is the author of the French translation of Giacomo Puccini's Madame Butterfly.

Works

Plays

• Chez l' avocat, 1873
• Les Incendies de Massoulard, 1873
• Les Compensations, 1876
• L ' Art de les femmes tromper, 1890

Libretti

• G. Serpette: La petite muette, 1877
• J. Offenbach: La Marocaine, 1879
• L. Varney: Les Mousquetaires au couvent, 1880
• L. Varney: Fanfan la Tulipe ( with Jules Prével ), 1882
• L. Varney: Babolin ( with Jules Prével ), 1884
• L. Varney: Les petits mousquetaires ( with Jules Prével ), 1885
• A. C. Lecocq: La vie mondaine, 1885
• V. Roger: Josephine vendue par ses sours, 1886
• L. Varney: Dix jours aux Pyrénées, 1887
• L. Varney: La Vénus d' Arles ( with Armand Liorat ), 1889
• L. Varney: La fée aux chèvres ( with Albert Vanloo ), 1890
• G. Serpette: Cendrillonnette, 1890
• G. Serpette: Mé - ne -ka, 1892
• L. Varney: Miss Robinson, 1892
• G. Serpette: La dot de Brigitte, 1895
• G. Serpette: Le Carnet du Diable ( with Ernest Blum), 1895
• G. Serpette: Le capitole ( with Charles Clairsville ), 1895
• G. Serpette: Le royaume des femmes ( with Ernest Blum), 1896
• G. Serpette: Le carillon, ( with Ernest Blum), 1896
• A. Messager: Le Chevalier d' Harmental ( by Alexandre Dumas ), 1896
• G. Pierné: La Fille de Tabarin ( with Victorien Sardou ), 1901

• Author
• Libretto
• Drama
• Frenchman
• Born in 1843
• Died in 1928
• Man