Francis de Croisset (French: [fÊ É'̃sis dÉ™ kÊ wasÉ›]; born Franz
Wiener, 28 January 1877 â€" 8 November 1937) was a Belgian-born French
playwright and opera librettist.He was born, as Franz Wiener, and
educated in Brussels on 28 January 1877 into a prominent Belgian
family that was distinguished in diplomacy and the army.[1] His
parents were Alexandre Jacques Wiener and Eugenie Bertha (née Straus)
Wiener. After moving to France, where he spent most of his life, he
had his name changed by Presidential decree.[1]At age 17, he rebelled
against his parents' wishes that he take up a military career, and ran
away to Paris. The following year, his play The Chérubin was produced
at the Comédie-Française where Cécile Sorel (later the Comtesse de
Ségur) made her debut in it. Jules Massenet set Chérubin to music
and, in 1904, Mary Garden sang it at the Opéra-Comique.[1]He was a
lawyer by profession, but de Croisset gradually devoted more and more
time to the theatre, "until play writing became his vocation."[1]
Wiener, 28 January 1877 â€" 8 November 1937) was a Belgian-born French
playwright and opera librettist.He was born, as Franz Wiener, and
educated in Brussels on 28 January 1877 into a prominent Belgian
family that was distinguished in diplomacy and the army.[1] His
parents were Alexandre Jacques Wiener and Eugenie Bertha (née Straus)
Wiener. After moving to France, where he spent most of his life, he
had his name changed by Presidential decree.[1]At age 17, he rebelled
against his parents' wishes that he take up a military career, and ran
away to Paris. The following year, his play The Chérubin was produced
at the Comédie-Française where Cécile Sorel (later the Comtesse de
Ségur) made her debut in it. Jules Massenet set Chérubin to music
and, in 1904, Mary Garden sang it at the Opéra-Comique.[1]He was a
lawyer by profession, but de Croisset gradually devoted more and more
time to the theatre, "until play writing became his vocation."[1]
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