Louis Xavier Stansislas Henri Bonnachon was born in Versailles, Yvelines, France on 5 March 1784.

[1] Louis Henry studied at the Paris Opera School with Deshayes, Gardel, and Coulon.

[2] After leaving France, Italy was where Henry spent most of his professional life during the Romantic period.

[6] First staged at La Scala in Milan in 1829, Henry's ballet La festa da ballo in maschera inspired accusations against Filippo Taglioni, who allegedly used its choreography for the masked ball in Daniel Auber's 1833 opera Gustave III at the Opéra de Paris.

Both Henry's ballet and Auber's opera center on the 1792 assassination attempt of Gustav III, king of Sweden.