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Frédéric Bazille : Édouard Blau (1870).

Édouard Blau (actually Stanislas Viateur , born May 30, 1836 in Blois , † January 8, 1906 in Paris ) was a French writer and librettist .

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Blau came to Paris in 1856, where he found a job at the Bureaux de l'assistance publique . There he met the librettist Louis Gallet , with whom he took part in a competition for an opera libretto with La Coupe du Roi de Thulé for Georges Bizet in 1868 . The work was also set to music by Ernest Guiraud . Before that, he and his cousin Alfred Blau wrote the libretto for Jules Duprato's operetta Le Chanteur florentin in 1865 , which premiered in 1866 at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens .

With Werther (based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther ) and Cid (based on Pierre Corneille ), Blau adapted two works from world literature for the opera stage. He also worked as a journalist for the Revue et Gazette des théâtre , Grinoire and Diogène , as a poet and dramatist and wrote the novel Médium (1869).

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SURNAME Blue, Édouard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Viateur, Stanislas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French librettist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Blois
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1906
Place of death Paris