Lemaire, Ferdinand (1832–1879)

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Ferdinand Lemaire (1832 – 1879) was a French librettist and poet, best known for writing the libretto of Camille Saint-Saëns’s opera Samson et Dalila. Lemaire was a creole, originally from Martinique, and had married a cousin of Saint-Saëns’s wife. Wikipedia

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