Information: - Adolphe Charles Adam (24 July 1803 3 May 1856) was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is best known today for his ballets "Giselle" (1841) and "Le corsaire" (1856, his last work), his operas "Le postillon de Lonjumeau" (1836), "Le toreador" (1849) and "Si j'etais roi" (1852) - '' O Holy Night '' ( French : Cantique de Noel ) is a well - known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem '' Minuit , chretiens '' ( Midnight , Christians ) by a wine merchant and poet , Placide Cappeau ( 1808 -- 1877 ) . In Roquemaure at the end of the year 1843 , the church organ was recently renovated . To celebrate the event , the parish priest asked Cappeau , native from this town , to write a Christmas poem , even though the latter never showed an interest in religion , and Cappeau obliged . Soon after , Adam wrote the music . The song was premiered in Roquemaure in 1847 by the opera singer Emily Laurey . Unitarian minister John Sullivan Dwight , editor of Dwight 's Journal of Music , created a singing edition based on Cappeau 's French text in 1855 . In both the French original and in the two familiar English versions of the carol , as well as many other languages , the text reflects on the birth of Jesus and of humanity 's redemption . - Giselle (French: "Giselle, ou les Wilis") is a romantic ballet in two acts. It was first performed by the Ballet du Theatre de l'Academie Royale de Musique at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris, France on Monday, 28 June 1841, with Italian ballerina Carlotta Grisi as Giselle. The ballet was an unqualified triumph. "Giselle" became hugely popular and was staged at once across Europe, Russia, and the United States. The traditional choreography that has been passed down to the present day derives primarily from the revivals staged by Marius Petipa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg. What is the relationship between 'o holy night' and 'france'?
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country of origin