Philippe Gille
Playwright, Librettist
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Philippe Gille
Philippe Gille was a French dramatist and opera librettist, who was born and died in Paris. He wrote over twenty libretti between 1857 and 1893, the most famous of which are Massenet's Manon and Delibes' Lakmé. Gille was elected to the Académie des beaux-arts in 1899.
Although Gille studied law and was a clerk for a time at the Préfecture de la Seine, he became secretary of the Théâtre Lyrique then from 1869 an art and music for Le Figaro.
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