Albert de Saint-Albin

Albert de Saint-Albin was a 19th-century French playwright, journalist, chansonnier and librettist.

Biography

A journalist at Le Temps, chief editor of the Jockey and Le Figaro, he was known as a sports columnist under the pseudonym Robert Milton and was a great promoter of fencing.
His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century, including the Théâtre des Variétés, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, the Théâtre du Vaudeville, and the Théâtre de la Gaîté.
Moreover, Saint-Albin was a collector of paintings by Eugène Boudin of which he owned a dozen works and by Gustave Moreau.

1875: Le Manoir de Pictordu, comédie-opérette in 3 acts, with Arnold Mortier
1876: La Belle Poule, three-act opéra bouffe, with Hector Crémieux
1877: La Foire Saint-Laurent, three-act opéra bouffe, with Crémieux and Jacques Offenbach
1879: Le Grand Casimir, three-act opérette, with Jules Prével and Charles Lecocq
1884: Le Train de plaisir, four-act comedy, with Alfred Hennequin and Mortier
1885: Mam'zelle Gavroche, comédie-opérette, with Edmond Gondinet
1885: Monsieur le Député, one-act comedy
1888: Les Joyeusetés de l'année
1891: Monsieur l'abbé ou la Belle-mère apprivoisée
1893: Leurs gigolettes
1895: Panurge, opéra comique, with Robert Planquette and Henri Meilhac
1906: Le Péril jaune, three-act comedy, with Alexandre Bisson, posth.

1875: Les Salles d'armes de Paris
1875: Le Sportman
1889: Les sports à Paris, 2 vol.
1889: Les cirques
1890: Les courses de chevaux en France, Hachette
1899: Les Courses de lévriers, le coursing, greyhounds et fox-terriers by Alfred de Sauvenière, preface
undated: ''À travers les salles d'armes''