 Alphonse Salin

Nicolas Alphonse Salin (5 July 1798 – 6 June 1878) was a French playwright and chansonnier.An employee at the Chancellery until 1830 and then at the Hôtel des Monnaies, Paris, where he became chief controller for coinage (1857), his plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century