Théodore Ymbert

Henri Théodore Ymbert (10 July 1827 in Auteuil, Yvelines – 22 September 1894 at Bourbonne-les-Bains) was a French lawyer and composer.

[4] Two works were his most successful: the music for the one-act comic opera Les Deux Cadis (1861);[5] and his Sept Fables de la Fontaine, which was preferred to Jacques Offenbach’s settings of La Fontaine's Fables when it was first performed in 1862,[6] and which continues to be performed.

[7] Professionally Ymbert gained his doctorate in law and practised in the Court of Appeal of Paris.

[8] As well as writing on both legal and musical subjects, he also collaborated in the revision of a number of administrative reference works.

Among the latter was the Dictionnaire des formules ou mairie pratique contenant les modèles de tous les actes d'administration municipal (1880)[9] and the Dictionnaire général d'administration (1884),[10] for which he was qualified after serving as mayor of Bourbonne-les-Bains between 1873-8 and then as a deputy judicial officer.