Franc-Nohain

Maurice Étienne Legrand, who published under the pseudonym Franc-Nohain (French pronunciation: ​[fʁɑ̃.nɔ.ɛ̃]; 25 October 1872 – 18 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.

Franc-Nohain

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.[1] 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.

His literary pseudonym Franc-Nohain was derived from the Nohain River, where he had spent many happy hours as a child.

With Alfred Jarry and Claude Terrasse he co-founded the Théatre des Pantins, which in 1898 was the site of marionette performances of Jarry's Ubu Roi.[2]

He is best remembered now as the librettist for some operettas by Terrasse, and for the opera L'heure espagnole by Maurice Ravel, adapted from his own comedy.

He had two sons: the actor Claude Dauphin, and the songwriter and television producer/director Jean Nohain (aka Jaboune).[3]

He died in Paris in October 1934, aged 61.

Works

Libretti
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gollark: Once you have the gradient you just need to work out the y intercept, so put that into the straight line equation (y = mx + c), substitute in the x and y from one of the points, solve for c (y intercept), and you're done.
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References
  1. Alan Sheridan, André Gide: A life in the present
  2. PADA
  3. Musique en ligne
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