Maurice Léna

{{Short description|French dramatist and librettist}}

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Maurice Léna (24 December 1859 – 31 March 1928){{Cite web|url=http://data.bnf.fr/12765185/maurice_lena/|title=Maurice Léna|accessdate=2017-12-06|publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France}} was a French dramatist and librettist of the Parisian Belle Époque. His opera librettos include Jules Massenet's Le jongleur de Notre-Dame (1902), Georges Hüe's Dans l'ombre de la cathédrale (1921),{{Cite book

|title=French Music Since Berlioz

|url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1351566466

|isbn=978-1351566469

|author=Caroline Potter |year= 2017| publisher=Routledge }} Charles-Marie Widor's Nerto (1924) and Henry Février's La Damnation de Blanchefleur (1920).{{Cite book|title=Le Ménestrel: journal de musique |page=126

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0GMhFU3gyisC |language=fr

|year=1919 }}

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Category:1859 births

Category:1928 deaths

Category:20th-century French dramatists and playwrights

Category:French opera librettists

Category:Belle Époque

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