Anne Honoré Joseph Duverrier de Melville ( French Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier de Mélesville ), signed simply Melville ( December 13, 1787 , Paris - November 7, 1865 , Marly-le-Roi ) - French playwright and librettist.
The son of a prominent official, Melville initially made a career as a lawyer and civil servant. The success of the comedy "Uncle Rival" ( French L'Oncle rival ) in 1811 allowed him to completely switch to work for the theater by 1814 . Over the next half century, Melville wrote about 340 plays - comedies, vaudeville, melodramas, as well as opera libretto for composers such as Adolphe Adan and Francois Aubert . A significant part of Melville’s works was co-authored: for example, a trio of playwrights composed of Melville, Eugene Scribe and Delestra-Poirson even used the common pseudonym Amede de Saint-Marc ( FR Amédée de Saint-Marc ).
His vaudeville, The Mayor of Saardam, or Two Peters, formed the basis of the opera The King and the Carpenter .