Marc Charles Constant Bénézit (French: [benezi]; 23 November 1815 – 10 July 1900) was a French musician, writer, and music teacher.
[4] With Leconte de Lisle's encouragement, M. Mille wrote the comic text and Charles Bénézit the music for two vaudevilles, Les Mémoires d'une puce de qualité (une puce de Napoléon Ier!)
When Napoléon III seized power in 1851, many French exiled to Jersey; Charles and his family, marked as being "from France" were recorded in the Jersey census in 1851, and still in the 1861 and 1871 censuses.
Victor Hugo had gone first to Brussels, but in 1855 joined other exiles in Jersey.
[10] They had eight children, including art historian Emmanuel Bénézit..