page_title: Philippe Gille
hierarchical_section_title: Philippe Gille
caption_attribution_description: English: French librettist Philippe Gille (1830-1901)
context_page_description: Philippe Emile François Gille was a French dramatist and opera librettist, who was born and died in Paris. He wrote over twenty librettos between 1857 and 1893, the most famous of which are Massenet's Manon and Delibes' Lakmé.
  Although Gille studied law and was a clerk for a time at the Préfecture de la Seine, he became secretary of the Théâtre Lyrique then from 1869 an art and music for Le Figaro.
  Gille was elected to the Académie des beaux-arts in 1899.
context_section_description: Philippe Emile François Gille (10 December 1831 – 19 March 1901) was a French dramatist and opera librettist, who was born and died in Paris.  He wrote over twenty librettos between 1857 and 1893, the most famous of which are Massenet's Manon and Delibes'  Lakmé.
  Although Gille studied law and was a clerk for a time at the Préfecture de la Seine, he became secretary of the Théâtre Lyrique then from 1869 an art and music for Le Figaro.
  Gille was elected to the Académie des beaux-arts in 1899.
caption: Philippe Gille
   (date unknown)
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "100", "Image YResolution": "100", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS Windows", "Image DateTime": "2012:10:24 14:13:12", "Image ExifOffset": "164", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "302", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "5068", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "635", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "900"}