Francis Cornu

Francis Cornu was a French dramatist from the Nièvre, who was a bank clerk in Paris from 1819 to 1825 and had his first success with the drama Isaure in 1829. Many of his plays were written with Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois for the Gymnase, the Ambigu-Comique and the Variétés, among them the drama Nabuchodonosor of 1836, a source of Verdi's Nabucco. In 1841 he became director of the theatre at Antwerp.