Background
Crémieux was born in Paris to a Jewish family - he was related to the lawyer Adolphe Crémieux.
Crémieux was born in Paris to a Jewish family - he was related to the lawyer Adolphe Crémieux.
He studied law and then worked in the civil service.
His best-known work is his collaboration with Ludovic Halévy for Jacques Offenbach"s Orphée aux Enfers, known in English as Orpheus in the Underworld. His first play, Fiesque (1852) was a historical drama, but before long he started to write comedies and then, in collaboration, operetta and opéra comique librettos. His collaborations with Halévy were often written under the joint pseudonym Paul d"Arcy.
In 1887, Crémieux became secretary-general of the Société des Dépôts Comptes Courants, and ceased writing.
Five years later, the Société collapsed and he committed suicide by gunshot in Paris. Foreign Jacques Offenbach Le savetier et le financier (1856) - with East About Une demoiselle en loterie (1857) - with Louis-Adolphe Jaime Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld) (1858) - with Ludovic Halévy Geneviève de Brabant (1859) - by Louis-Adolphe Jaime and Etienne Tréfeu (revised by Crémieux with Tréfeu) Louisiana chanson de Fortunio (1861) - with Ludovic Halévy Le pont des soupirs (1861) - with Ludovic Halévy M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le. (1861) - with M de Saint Rémy, East L’Epine and Ludovic Halévy Le roman comique (1861) - with Ludovic Halévy Jacqueline (1862) - with Ludovic Halévy, with common pseudonym Political d’Arcy Les bergers (1865) - with Philippe Gille Robinson Crusoé (1867) - with Eugène Cormon Louisiana jolie parfumeuse (1873) - with Ernest Blum Bagatelle (1874) - with Ernest Blum Louisiana foire Saint-Laurent (1877) - with A de Saint-Albin Foreign Léo Delibes Les eaux d’Ems (1861) - with Ludovic Halévy Foreign Hervé Le petit Faust (1869) - with Louis-Adolphe Jaime Les Turcs (1869) - with Louis-Adolphe Jaime Le trône d"Écosse (1871) - with Louis-Adolphe Jaime Louisiana veuve du Malabar (1873) - with A. Delacour Louisiana belle poule (1875) - with A de Saint-Albin Foreign Léon Vasseur Louisiana famille Trouillat (1874) - with Ernest Blum.