Paul Solanges

Paul Solanges was a French cavalry officer, taken prisoner at Sedan in 1870O'Neill, P. N. (2007) Paul Solanges: soldier, industrialist, translator: a biographical study and critical edition of his correspondence with Antonio Fogazzaro and Henry Handel Richardson. PhD thesis. Monash University. (Accessed: 19 October 2026)., who settled in Milan in 1875 to work for the Union des Gaz, rising to manage its Milan gas worksO'Neill, P. N. (2007) Paul Solanges: soldier, industrialist, translator: a biographical study and critical edition of his correspondence with Antonio Fogazzaro and Henry Handel Richardson. PhD thesis. Monash University. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).. With Arrigo Boito he made the French version of Falstaff for the Opéra-Comique in 1894, eight months' work at four hours a nightO'Neill, P. N. (2007) Paul Solanges: soldier, industrialist, translator: a biographical study and critical edition of his correspondence with Antonio Fogazzaro and Henry Handel Richardson. PhD thesis. Monash University. (Accessed: 19 October 2026)., and he translated Verga's Cavalleria rusticana and Fogazzaro's Daniele CortisO'Neill, P. N. (2007) Paul Solanges: soldier, industrialist, translator: a biographical study and critical edition of his correspondence with Antonio Fogazzaro and Henry Handel Richardson. PhD thesis. Monash University. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).Bibliothèque nationale de France (n.d.) Solanges, Paul (1846-1914). Authority record. (Accessed: 19 October 2026)..