Arnold Mortier

Arnold Mortier (1843 – 2 January 1885 ) was a 19th-century French journalist, playwright, and librettist.

Arnold Mortier was responsible for the drama column at Le Figaro, gathered in a collection entitled Les soirées parisiennes de 18NN par un Monsieur de l'orchestre.

Mortier cosigned the libretto of the opéra-bouffe Le docteur Ox by Jacques Offenbach, adapted from the 1872 short story Une fantaisie du docteur Ox by Jules Verne.

Works Le manoir de Pictordu (for Gaston Serpette, with Albert de Saint-Albin) (1875) Le voyage dans la lune (for Jacques Offenbach, with Albert Vanloo and Eugène Leterrier) (1875) Le docteur Ox (for Offenbach, with Philippe Gille) (1877) Yedda (for Olivier Métra, with Gille) (1879) L'arbre de Noël (for Charles Lecocq and Georges Jacobi, with Vanloo and Leterrier) (1880) Madame le diable (for Serpette, with Henri Meilhac) (1882) La farandole (for Théodore Dubois, with Gille) (1885)