and based on Edmond About's novel of the same name La voie sacrée, ou, Les étapes de la gloire: drame militaire en cinq actes (1859) - with Eugène Woestyn and Ernest Bourget Le pied de mouton (1859) - with Charles-Théodore Cogniard and Jean-Hippolyte Cogniard L'Abbe Constantin (1882) - with Pierre Decourcelle and based on Ludovic Halévy's novel of the same name Autour du mariage (1883) - with the Comtesse de Martel and based on her novel of the same name References New Grove Dictionary of Opera, vol 1, p. 1004 . External links Jewish Encyclopedia: Crémieux, Hector-Jonathan, written by Isidore Singer and J. Fuchs French opera librettists 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 1828 births 1892 deaths 19th-century French Jews Writers from Paris Suicides in France 19th-century male writers 1890s suicides