Excerpt from Un Mariage D'amour Ludovic Halevy was born in Paris, January I, 1834. Upon the completion of his studies in the lyce'e louis-le-grand he entered the service of the French government, and held responsible positions in the State and Colonial Departments and in the Legislative Assembly. These duties, however, did t prevent him from following his natural inclination for literary work. Under the name of Jules Servieres at first, and later under his own name, he produced a number of comedies and operettas, some of which were set to music by Offenbach, Bizet, Lecocq, and Delibes. In 1865 he relinquished his position in the Legis lative Assembly to devote his attention exclusively to letters. An indefatigable worker, his literary output soon became er mous, short stories, farces, comedies, ballets, and operettas from his pen appeared in profusion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.