Jules Noriac
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. He was co-managing director of the Théâtre des Variétés from 1856 to 1869 and of the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens from 1868 to 1879. Jules Noriac was awarded with the Spanish Order of Charles III.