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Jules Barbier

Before he wrote the libretto for what would for many decades be the world’s most popular opera — Gounod’s Faust — Jules Barbier began by writing frivolous small comic plays. Barbier was generally very much a guy of his period. His early performs had been lighthearted and topical ointment, adorned …

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