Hippolyte Bis

Hippolyte Bis
Hippolyte Bis
	Portrait of Hippolyte Bis, by Serrur, 1829
Born	29 August 1789; Douai
Died	3 March 1855 (aged 65); Paris
Occupation(s)	Playwright; Librettist
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Hippolyte Louis Florent Bis (29 August 1789 – 3 March 1855), was an early 19th-century French playwright and librettist.^[1] He is mostly known for the libretto to Gioachino Rossini's opera William Tell (premiered in 1829), which he wrote with Étienne de Jouy.^[2]

Works

1817: Lothaire, tragedy in 3 acts and in verse, with François Hay
1822: Attila, five-act tragedy, Paris, Second Théâtre-Français, 26 April
1827: Blanche d'Aquitaine, ou le Dernier des Carlovingiens, five-act tragedy, Théâtre-Français, 29 October
1845: Jeanne de Flandre, ou Régner à tout prix, tragedy, created by the Théâtre-Français at the salle Richelieu on October 29, a single performance

1822: Le Cimetière, poème lyrique
La Marseillaise du Nord, sung 6 December 1830, dans un banquet de Gardes nationaux de Lille et de Douai, après la réception des drapeaux donnés par le roi des Français Louis-Philippe Ier
Notice sur le Mal Mortier, duc de Trévise, mort assassiné près du roi, le 28 juillet 1835, suivie du programme de l'inauguration de sa statue, le 16 septembre 1838 au Catteau-Cambrésis
1839: La Flamande, dittie in 12 couplets avec refrain, réunion des Enfants du Nord du 29 April
1842: Le Général Guilleminot, esquisse historique

^ Phillips, Lawrence Barnett (1871). The Dictionary of Biographical Reference, p. 153. Sampson Low, Son & Marston
^ "Libretto to Guillaume Tell". Stanford OperaGlass.

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Hippolyte Bis
Portrait of Hippolyte Bis, by Serrur, 1829
Born	29 August 1789 Douai
Died	3 March 1855(1855-03-03) (aged 65) Paris
Occupation(s)	Playwright Librettist