La taupe et les papillons (The Mole and the Butterflies) is an opera by the French composer Étienne Méhul.
It takes the form of a comédie lyrique in one act.
The libretto is by Ange-Étienne-Xavier Poisson de La Chabeaussière.
Composed in 1797–1798, it was due to be staged at the Théâtre Montansier in 1799 but political censorship meant the opera was never performed.
[1] This article about a French-language opera is a stub.