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HENRI MEILHAC (1831-1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 83 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRI MEILHAC (1831-1897)  , French dramatist, was born in Paris on the 21st of
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February 1831, and while a young man began writing fanciful articles for the
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newspapers and vaudevilles for the theatres, in a vivacious boulevardier spirit which brought him to the front . About 186o he met Ludovic Halevy, and the two began a collaboration in writing for the stage which lasted for twenty years . An account of their
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work is given under HALEvY . Meilhac wrote a few pieces with lesser collaborators . In 1888 he was elected to the Academy . He died at Paris in 1897 .

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