Jules Costé

Edme Jules called Jules Costé, (13 February 1828 – 12 November 1883) was a 19th-century French lawyer and composer of operettas and opéras-comiques. Main works *1855: Jacqueline ou la Fille du soldat, one-act opéra-comique, libretto by Eugène Scribe, Léon Battu and Edouard Fournier, music with the comte d’Osmond, presented at the Comédie Italienne, 15 Mai *1855: Une pleine eau, one-act opérette bouffe, libretto by Ludovic Halévy (under the pseudonym Jules Servières), music with the comte d’Osmond, Bouffes-Parisiens, 29 August *1868: Les Horreurs de la guerre, two-act opéra bouffe, libretto by Philippe Gille (Paris, Cercle de l’Union artistique, then Théâtre de l’Athénée, 9 December) *1868: La Paix armée, one-act operetta (Paris, Cercle de l’Union artistique, 16 April) *1872: Le Service obligatoire, three-act opérette bouffe, libretto by Albert Marion, Henri Meilhac and Fournier-Sarloveze, music with Emmanuel Chabrier and René de Boisdeffre (Paris, Cercle de l’Union artistique, 21 December) *1873: Au harem, one-act ballet (in comte d’Osmond’s home, 5 June) *1874: Cent mille francs et ma fille, four-act opérette bouffe, libretto by Jaime fils and Philippe Gille (Théâtre des Menus-Pla