Journalist, playwright, writer, librettist and theatre director.
Grave of Jules Noriac in Montmartre
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Jules Noriac, real name Claude, Antoine, Jules Cairon, (24 April 1827 – 1 October 1882), was a French journalist, playwright, writer, librettist and theatre director.
Biography
Cairon was first a journalist and columnist in many newspapers. He started successively at the Corsair in 1850, the Gazette de France in 1851, the National Assembly in 1853, then as editor of Le Figaro weekly of which he was one of the main editors. He worked simultaneously with the Revue fantaisiste, the Gazette de Paris, La Silhouette, the Revue des Beaux Arts, L'Univers illustré and became successively chief-editor of the Figaro-programme, the Soleil and the Nouvelles (1865–66).
He also wrote plays, operetta libretti and novels under the pseudonym Jules Noriac.
