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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)

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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

The two investigators had a series of interviews with Sardou, Dumas fils, Pailleron, Meilhac, Daudet, and Edmond de Goncourt.

From How to Write a Play Letters from Augier, Banville, Dennery, Dumas, Gondinet, Labiche, Legouvé, Pailleron, Sardou, Zola by Brander Matthews

"Come to lunch with me to-morrow at Vachette's," said Meilhac, "and I will tell you what I have done...."

From My Recollections by Jules Massenet

Nor did either Pailleron and Meilhac make any contribution of importance.

From How to Write a Play Letters from Augier, Banville, Dennery, Dumas, Gondinet, Labiche, Legouvé, Pailleron, Sardou, Zola by Brander Matthews

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

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