Francis Gally

He worked in collaboration with the playwrights Hugues Delorme and Maurice Ordonneau as well as with the composer Henri Goublier [fr].

In 1915, the operetta La Cocarde de Mimi-Pinson, a theatre play in honour of the poilus fighting for the French flag, was a triomph at the Théâtre de l'Apollo in Paris.

At the beginning of World War I, midinettes nicknamed Mimi Pinson, were making tricolor rosettes for the benefit of solidarity funds (a work led by Gustave Charpentier).

Henri Goublier thought that the current events could be a good subject operetta.

Goublier obtained the agreement of Maurice Ordonneau, one of the fashionable authors of the time for the libretto, a project which Francis Gally joined.