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Francis de Croisset
Playwright, Librettist
1877 – 1937
Who was Francis de Croisset?
Francis de Croisset was a Belgium-born French playwright and opera librettist.
His opera librettos include Massenet's Chérubin, based on his play of the same name, and Reynaldo Hahn's Ciboulette.
He married, in 1910, Marie-Thérèse Bischoffsheim, the widow of banking heir Maurice Bischoffsheim and the daughter of Count and Countess Adhéaume de Chevigné. They had two children, Philippe and Germaine de Croisset. By this mariage de Croisset had a stepdaughter, the arts patron Marie-Laure de Noailles. The de Croissets' grandson Philippe de Montebello was director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1977 until 2008.
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- Born
- Jan 28, 1877
Brussels - Also known as
- Francis De Croisset
- Franz Weiner
- François de Crosset
- Spouses
- Marie-Thérèse Bischoffsheim
(1910 - )
- Marie-Thérèse Bischoffsheim
- Children
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Died
- Nov 8, 1937
Neuilly-sur-Seine
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on July 23, 2013
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