Albert Millaud

[1] He was the son of the banker Moïse Millaud, the founder of Le Petit Journal.

[2] He studied law (obtaining his doctorate in 1866),[1] but turned his energies to literature and in 1865 published a volume of poetry entitled Fantaisies de jeunesse.

For his daily articles in Le Figaro, where he covered parliamentary affairs, he also used the pseudonyms[3] La Bruyère, Saint-Simon, Paul Hémery, Lafontaine and Baron Grimm.

He was the author of the libretto for several opérettes for Jacques Offenbach, Charles Lecocq and Hervé.

He married the singer Anna Judic,[4] for whom he wrote Lilli, Niniche, La Roussotte, La Femme à papa and most memorably Mam'zelle Nitouche (in collaboration with Henri Meilhac).