Parents Charles Gabet | Libretti Les cloches de Corneville | |
Died 15 January 1903, Paris, France | ||
Émile Étienne Charles Gabet (16 May 1821 in Paris – 15 January 1903) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist.
Biography
Gabet was the son of the painter Charles Gabet and his wife Françoise Ursine Eugénie Viquesnel.
He led parallel careers as a commissaire de police and a dramatist. He was commissaire de police of the Porte-Saint-Martin quartier (that of théâtres of the boulevards Saint-Martin and Strasbourg). As a playwright and librettist, he worked with several major authors of his time: Alexandre Dumas, Clairville and Adolphe d'Ennery. He also paroded Victor Hugo with a malicious Ruy-Black, lampooning Ruy Blas.
He died at the age of 81 in 1903 in his home at 89 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin in Paris.
References
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