[1] He worked, successively, as a clerk, a lawyer, an employee of the Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean railway, and later the head of that company's Paris office.

[2] He wrote his first play in collaboration with Marc-Michel – Une Trilogie de pantalons (A Trilogy of Trousers), a comic one-act vaudeville], which was performed at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in 1855.

[2] From 1865 Chivot became a librettist and in collaboration, particularly with Duru, he wrote more than forty librettos for operettas or opéras comiques for composers famous in the second half of the 19th century.

[1] Other composers for whom Chivot and Duru wrote were Hervé, Franz von Suppé and Robert Planquette.

[2] After Duru died in 1889, Chivot continued to write for the theatre, and was working on a new piece for the Palais-Royale at the time of his own death.