Émile Moreau

Marie-Jules-Émile Moreau (8 December 1852 – 27 December 1922), was a French playwright and librettist.

Biography Aged 17 he volunteered for the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 and participated to the Côte-d'Or and Armée de l'Est campaigns with general Bourbaki.

In 1887 he was awarded a poetry prize by the Académie française for Pallas Athénée.

The composer Paul Vidal won the first prix de Rome in 1883 with his cantata Le Gladiateur on a libretto by Moreau, and Auguste Chapuis the prix Rossini in 1886 with Les Jardins d'Armide.

He has sometimes been confused with Émile Moreau, the French businessman who was one of the co-founders of the Indian bookstore chain A. H. Wheeler & Co.

Theatre 1877: Parthénice, à-propos in 1 act and in verse, Comédie-Française 1883: Corneille et Richelieu, à-propos in 1 act and in verse, Comédie-Française 1885: Matapan, comedy in 3 acts and in verse 1887: Protestation, à-propos in verse, Comédie-Française 1890: Le Drapeau, drama in 5 acts with Ernest Depré, Théâtre du Vaudeville 1890: Cléopâtre with Victorien Sardou, music by Xavier Leroux, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin 1891: L'Auberge des mariniers, drama in 5 acts, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique 1893: Madame Sans-Gêne, comedy in 3 acts and a prologue with Victorien Sardou, Théâtre du Vaudeville 1895: Le Capitaine Floréal, drama in 5 acts with Ernest Depré, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique 1897: La Montagne enchantée, pièce fantastique in 5 acts and 12 tableaux with Albert Carré, music by André Messager and Xavier Leroux, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin 1899: Madame de Lavalette, drama, Théâtre du Vaudeville 1901: Quo vadis ?, historical drama in 5 acts and 10 tableaux with Louis Péricaud after the eponymous novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz, music by Francis Thomé, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin 1909: Le Procès de Jeanne d'Arc, historical drama in 4 acts, Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt 1909: Madame Margot with Charles Clairville, Théâtre Réjane 1912: La Reine Élisabeth, play in 4 acts, Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt 1920: Le Courrier de Lyon, drama in 5 acts and 6 tableaux with Paul Siraudin and Alfred Delacour, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin