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Paul Henrion by Firmin Gillot, after a charge by Paul Hadol, 1861
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Born | 20 July 1819 Paris |
Died | 24 October 1901 Paris |
(aged 82)
Occupation | Composer |
Paul Henrion, (20 July 1819 – 24 October 1901 ) was a 19th-century French composer.
President of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique of which he was a co-founder with Victor Parizot and Ernest Bourget, he was also a goguettier, member of the goguette du Poulet sauté . In a panorama of the world of songs published in 1882 in Le Figaro, the journalist considered him "a first-rate artist whose romances for salons were famous". Henrion sometimes signed his compositions under the pseudonym Henri Charlemagne.