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Franc-Nohain
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thumb|Franc-Nohain Maurice Étienne Legrand, who published under the pseudonym Franc-Nohain (; 25 October 187218 October 1934), was a French librettist and poet. He is best known for his libretti for Maurice Ravel's opera ''L'heure espagnole'' and for numerous operettas by Claude Terrasse.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1873
- Died
- 1934
- Works
- 35
Top works
- Fiches d'histoire politique et sociale contemporaine, 1910-1911-1912
- Confessions sur les femmes, l'amour, l'opium, l'idéal, etc.--
- Le cabinet de lecture
- L'heure espagnole
- Chacun treize à la douzaine
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- France
- Active from
- 1872
- Active to
- 1934
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Étienne
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Corbigny
- Place of death
- Paris
- Child
- Claude Dauphin
- Occupation
- lawyer
- Position held
- editor-in-chief
- Educated at
- Lycée Janson-de-Sailly
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Image
- CFP-2 Franc-Nohain (2).jpg
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- Commons category
- Franc-Nohain
- date of birth
- 1872-10-25
- date of death
- 1934-10-18
- birth name
- Maurice Étienne Legrand
- pseudonym
- Franc-Nohain
- name in native language
- Franc-Nohain
- Commons Creator page
- Franc-Nohain
- has works in the collection
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- writing language
- French
- partnership with
- Le Chat Noir
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Life
- Works
- Libretti
- References
- External links
thumb|Franc-Nohain Maurice Étienne Legrand, who published under the pseudonym Franc-Nohain (; 25 October 187218 October 1934), was a French librettist and poet. He is best known for his libretti for Maurice Ravel's opera ''L'heure espagnole and for numerous operettas by Claude Terrasse.
==Life== Maurice Étienne Legrand was born in 1872 in Corbigny; his father was an overseer-agent. He attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly. In the late 1880s he contributed poems to the literary magazine Potache-Revue (potache'' being slang for 'schoolkid'), along with André Gide, Léon Blum, Pierre Louÿs, Maurice Quillot and others. Later, he published in the journal Le Chat noir. He also founded Le Canard sauvage and became the editor of ''L'Écho de Paris. He also became a lawyer and deputy prefect.
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