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OFFENBACH Jacques (1819 - 1880)]

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OFFENBACH Jacques (1819 - 1880)]
More than 200 letters, manuscripts and documents, most of them L.A.S.
Nice set of Offenbach's collaborators, mainly his librettists, but also composers, theater people and relations.
Auguste ANICET-BOURGEOIS. (7), Jules BARBIER (7, to Carjat, Choudens, etc., and list of his booklets with Michel Carré), Théodore BARRIÈRE (5), Léon BATTU, Giovanni BAZZONI (1856 : "I have just seen Monsieur Offenback with Mr Escudier"), Ernest BLUM (2), Édouard BRISEBARRE (2), William BUSNACH (congratulations for Le Docteur Ox), Michel CARRÉ (5), Michel CARRÉ fils (2), Henri CHIVOT (6, one to Lassouche), CLAIRVILLE (and a poem), François COPPÉE (to V. Sardou, for the rehearsal of Roi Carotte), Hector CRÉMIEUX, Jules DANBÉ, Auguste DEFORGES (7 to Ernest L'Épine), Alfred DELACOUR (4), Léo DELIBES (2), Édouard DETAILLE, Alfred DURU, Paul FERRIER, Friedrich von FLOTOW (4, one to Escudier on the composition of Rosellana, his last opera, 1877), Jules FRANCESCHI (on his bust of Offenbach), Philippe GILLE (21), Emmanuel GRANGÉ, Ernest GUIRAUD (5, including 2 to Sardou), Arsène HOUSSAYE, Adolphe JAIME fils, Émile JONAS (5), Ernest L'ÉPINE (5, one signed "Quatrelles), LAMBERT-THIBOUST (6), Armand LAPOINTE (2), Jules LEMAITRE, Eugène LETERRIER, Camille du LOCLE (to Barbier, for Les Contes d'Hoffmann), MÉLESVILLE (3) Joseph MÉRY (and ms of article Les Trois Âges de Bade, for the opening of the new theater), Albert MILLAUD (8), Jules MOINAUX (6), Paul de MUSSET (2, and one of his wife), NADAR (to Vizentini, on Le Voyage dans la lune), Gustave NADAUD (P.A.S. musical: "Brigadier, replied
Pandore, Brigadier, you are right"), Louis NORBLIN, Charles NUITTER (13), Charles PIEL de TROISMONT (to Offenbach), Édouard PLOUVIER (10), Francis de PLUNKETT (2), Henri de SAINT-GEORGES, Victorien SARDOU (22), Eugène SCRIBE (6), Etienne TRÉFEU (3), Albert VANLOO, Albert VIZENTINI (11), Albert WILLEMETZ.
An invitation card to the Offenbach's costume party for their 25th year of marriage is enclosed| an autograph envelope from Jacques Offenbach to his wife.