French playwright and librettist.

Scribe is one of the most representative writers of the epoch of Louis Philippe, both for the great success his works enjoyed and for the vast number he produced, more than 420.
Besides his many successful bourgeois comedy plays, he was also acclaimed for his opera librettos, especially for the opéra comique.
From 1830 he collaborated with the most famous French and foreign musicians, such as Auber, Rossini, Meyerbeer, Adam, Halévy, Donizetti and Giuseppe Verdi with Les Vêpres siciliennes (1855), written in collaboration with Charles Duveyrier.