DENNERY  , or D'ENNERY, ADOLPHE (1811—1899),

French dramatist and novelist, whose real surname was PHILIPPE, was born in Paris on the 17th of June 1811 . He obtained his first success in collaboration with Charles Desnoyer in Emile, ou le fits d'un pair de France (1831), a drama which was the first of a series of some two hundred pieces written alone or in collaboration with other dramatists . Among the best of them may be mentioned Gaspard Hauser (1838) with Anicet Bourgeois; Les Bohemiens de Paris (1842) with Eugene Grange; with Mallian, Marie-Jeanne, ou la femme du peuple (1845), in which Madame Dorval obtained a great success; La Case d'Oncle Tom (1853); Les Deux Orphelines (1875), perhaps his best piece, with Eugene Cormon . He wrote the libretto for Gounod's Tribut de Zamora (1881); with Louis Gallet and Edouard Elan he composed the book of Massenet's Cid (1885); and, again in collaboration with Eugene Cormon, the books of Auber's operas, Le Premier Jour de bonheur (1868) and Rive d'amour (1869) . He prepared for the stage Balzac's posthumous comedy Mercadet ou le faiseur, presented at the Gymnase theatre in 1851 . Reversing the usual order of procedure, Dennery adapted some of his plays to the form of novels . He died in Paris in 1899 .