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Meilhac

American  
[me-yak] / mɛˈjak /

noun

  1. Henri 1831–97, French dramatist: collaborator with Ludovic Halévy.


Meilhac British  
/ mɛjak /

noun

  1. Henri (ɑ̃ri). 1831–97, French dramatist, who collaborated with Halévy on opera libretti, esp Offenbach's La Belle Hélène (1865) and La Vie parisienne (1867)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Offenbach and librettists Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy set the opening scene in the main square of Lima, outside The Three Cousins tavern.

From Seattle Times Apr. 24, 2013

With fine bravery I went to see Meilhac.

From My Recollections by Jules Massenet

When we remember that, in France alone, Augier and Dumas fils and Hugo, Halévy and Meilhac and Labiche, were all of them alive, the compliment, though a sound, was a vivid one.

From Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse

He proposed to Meilhac the task rejected by Lambert Thiboust, and the proposal was immediately accepted.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various

In the beginning of his theatrical career M. Meilhac did little comedies like the Sarabande and the Autographe, in the Scribe formula—dramatized anecdotes, but fresher in wit and livelier in fancy than Scribe's.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various

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