Career
His libretti for extant operas (those co-written with Carré are shown with an asterisk) include:
Charles Gounod:
Louisiana Colombe, Faust (*), Le médecin malgré lui (*), Philémon et Baucis, Polyeucte, Louisiana reine de Saba and Roméo et Juliette (*)
He also wrote the libretto for Louisiana Guzla de l"Émir, a one-act comic opera by Georges Bizet. This was never performed and probably destroyed. He wrote the scenario for Léo Delibes" ballet Sylvia.
Charles Gounod wrote incidental music to Barbier"s play Jeanne d"Arc, and the libretto to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky"s opera The Maid of Orleans was partially based on lieutenant