Unfinished or discarded operas

• Les Deux boursiers. Operetta, one act. Written for the Théâtre de la Tour-d’Auvergne, ca. 1859.
• Noureddin. Sketches for an opera Comique, ca. 1865. Bibl. Nat., Fonds du Conservatoire. Ms. 4240
• Valeria. Sketches for an Italian opera, ca. 1865, Bibl. Nat., Fonds du Conservatoire, Ns. 4241.
• Esméralda. Composed at the Villa Medicis, ca. 1865.
• La Coupe du Thulé. Opéra, three actes. Text, Louis Gallet and Édoaurd Blau. A setting of the prescribe libretto for the Paris Opéra competition of 1867. Not performed. Music of the second act was used for the third act of Le Roi de Lahore and various airs and ensembles utilized for Les Érinnyes, Marie-Magdeleine, Ève, and La Vierge.
• Le Florentin. Opéra Comique. Text, Jules-Henri Vernoy, Marquis de Saint-Georges. A setting of the prescribed libretto for the Paris Opéra-Comique competiton of 1867. Finished, 1868.
• Manfred. Text, Jules-Émile Ruelle, after Byron. 1869?
• Méduse. Opera, three acts. Text, Michel Carré père. 1870, not performed.
• Les Templiers. Text, Jules Adenis. Two actes completed but destroyed.
• Robert de France. Drame lyrique, ca. 1880.
• Les Girondins. Opera, 1881.
• Phœbus. Mentioned in Les Annales du théâtre et de la musique in 1881.
• Montalte. Text d’Énnery & Gallet. Probably not written.

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