Firmin Bernicat

[citation needed] Early in his career, he composed some short operas for the Paris theatre L'Eldorado.

[citation needed] He also made his living as a music arranger and orchestrator for composers including Robert Planquette and wrote songs for the stars of the era: Le Chemin des noisettes or La Pigeonne.

[citation needed] He wrote about thirty works, most one-act operettas and humorous or sentimental skits, for example Ali Pot-d’rhum (1869), Les Cadets de Gascogne, Le Cornette or Une aventure de la Clairon.

[citation needed] He eventually attracted the attention of the Director of the Fantaisies-Parisiennes in Brussels, who produced his first work in three acts, Les Beignets du Roi (1882), with a libretto by Albert Carré and Paul Ferrier.

[citation needed] He then wrote the libretto and began composition for an opéra comique, François les bas-bleus, before he died of tuberculosis at the age of 41.