Léon Lévy Brunswick

{{Short description|French playwright (1805–1859)}}

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| name = Léon-Lévy Brunswick

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| birth_date = 20 April 1805

| birth_place = Paris

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1859|07|29|1805|04|20}}

| death_place = Le Havre

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| occupation = Librettiste, journalist, writer, dramatist

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Léon Lévy Brunswick (20 April 1805, in Paris – 29 July 1859, in Le Havre) was a French playwright. He started as a journalist before turning to theater. He is the author of many comedies with Jean-François Bayard, Louis-Émile Vanderburch, and Arthur de Beauplan such as Boccaccio, or the Prince of Palmero by Franz von Suppé.{{cite web|last=Berliner Gramophone|title=The Gramophone five inch Berliner records online catalogue|url=http://www.archeophone.org/Berliner5inch/berliner-120.php|publisher=Berliner Gramophone de 12,5 cm|access-date=19 August 2013}} But it is with Adolphe de Leuven that he is known for his greatest successes, notably booklets of comic operas by Adolphe Adam (Le Brasseur de Preston, Le Postillon de Lonjumeau, Le Roi d'Yvetot).{{cite web|last=Operas, Arias, Composers|title=Le Postillon Lonjumeau|url=http://www.opera-arias.com/adam/le-postillon-lonjumeau/|publisher=Bizreach.jp|access-date=19 August 2013}} He has also published under the pseudonym of Leo Lhérie.{{cite web|last=Poinsot|first=Edmond Antoine|title=Dictionnaire des pseudonymes|year=1868 |publisher=Paris, Librairie Rouquettee |url=https://archive.org/stream/dictionnairedes36unkngoog/dictionnairedes36unkngoog_djvu.txt|access-date=19 August 2013}}