Joseph Méry

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Méry. Joseph Méry (21 January 1797 - 17 June 1866) was a French writer. Méry was born on 21 January 1797 in Marseille, in Southern France. An ardent romanticist, he collaborated with Auguste Barthélemy in many of his satires and wrote a great number of stories, now forgotten. Nowadays he is perhaps best remembered as the co-librettist of the original version in French of Verdi's Don Carlos, which premiered in Paris in March 1867. Also, he was the author of the play La Bataille de Toulouse which Verdi had earlier ad... Show more

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