Jean Pierre Félicien Mallefille

Jean Pierre Félicien Mallefille (May 3, 1813 – November 24, 1868) was a French novelist and playwright.

Mallefille was born in Mauritius.de icon cite encyclopedia | title = Mallefille | encyclopedia = Meyers Konversations-Lexikon | edition = 4th edition | year = 1890 | | volume = 11 | pages = p. 162 | url = http://www.retrobibliothek.de/retrobib/seite.html?id=110859] He wrote a number of plays, including "Glenarvon" (1835), "Les sept enfants de Lara" (1836), "Le cœur et la dot" (1852), and "Les sceptiques" (1867), as well as two comedies, and two novels, "Le collier" (1845) and "La confession du Gaucho" (1868). A farce of his, "Les deux veuves", later formed the basis of the libretto for Bedřich Smetana's opera "The Two Widows". [cite encyclopedia | title = Smetana, Bedrich| encyclopedia = Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers | year = 1985 | id = ISBN 0385142781 | pages = p. 664]

He also wrote a scenario in French that was to have been the basis of a libretto for the opera "Sardanapale" by Franz Liszt, but delivered it so late that Liszt, angered at his unreliability, had commissioned an Italian libretto from another writer; in the end the opera was never completed. [cite book | author = Kenneth Hamilton | title = Liszt: Sonata in B Minor | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 1996 | id = ISBN 0521469635 | pages = p. 83] [cite journal | author = Kenneth Hamilton | title = Not with a Bang but a Whimper: The Death of Liszt's "Sardanapale" | journal = Cambridge Opera Journal | volume = 8 | issue = 1 | year = 1996 | pages = 45–58]

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