Arnold Mortier

{{Short description|French journalist, playwright and librettist}}

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Arnold Mortier (1843 – 2 January 1885{{BNF|146530324}}) was a 19th-century French journalist, playwright, and librettist.

Arnold Mortier was responsible for the drama column at Le Figaro, gathered in a collection entitled Les soirées parisiennes de 18NN par un Monsieur de l'orchestre.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20020806115419/http://www.bmlisieux.com/archives/zola04.htm Prefaces by Emile Zola]}}

Mortier cosigned the libretto of the opéra-bouffe Le Docteur Ox by Jacques Offenbach, created in 1877.

He also participated to the writing of the following:

• Le voyage dans la lune, opéra-féerie in four acts and 23 scenes by Jacques Offenbach (1875)
• L'arbre de Noël (with Georges Jacobi) (1880)