Inspired by that cause, Clara volunteered with the International Committee of the Red Cross, providing civilian relief during the Franco-Prussian War. With permission from President Lincoln, she opened the Office of Missing Soldiers, helping to reconnect more than 20,000 soldiers with their families.ĭuring a trip to Switzerland in 1869, Clara learned about the Red Cross movement, a European humanitarian effort to provide neutral aid to those injured in combat. When the war ended, Clara found new ways to help the military.

During that time, she bravely provided nursing care and supplies to soldiers - activities that ultimately defined her life and earned her the nickname, Angel of the Battlefield. She was one of the first women to work for the federal government.Ĭlara was still living in Washington when the American Civil War began in 1861. After an early career in teaching, Clara moved to Washington, D.C., and worked at the U.S. 7 and 9, were adapted as vocal duets with piano and published as Les Nymphes des bois and Le Retour in about 1885.įair copies for this purpose.Born December 25, 1821, in North Oxford, Massachusetts, Clara Barton was the fifth child of Stephen and Sarah Barton. Was done on Clarisse Harlowe in 1872, but although the sketches suggest that the first two acts were fully drafted, little survives of the third.Ĭlarisse and her sister were cast as soprano andįour sections of the opera were adapted by Bizet as songs and duets, but published only posthumously. Grisélidis when the Opéra-Comique decided to commissionīizet to write Djamileh instead. During 1871 he worked simultaneously on both, but he abandoned This was to be an opéra-comique with a tragic ending, evidently,īizet was reported to be working on the opera (in three acts andįive tableaux) in February 1870, but it appears that work onĮxpecting to finish the latter opera in the summer of 1870, Bizet planned to work next onĬlarisse Harlowe, also intended for the Opéra-Comique.

In the novel, Clarissa, a young lady of good family, is wooed by Théâtres lyriques et barre le passage à la nôtre'.

In a note written after 1896īarbier remarks that he was aware of an earlier libretto onĬlarissa Harlowe, which 'erre dans les limbes des A different libretto on the novel by Julesīarbier and Paul Choudens, written in the 1890s and apparently never set, is found at 4 in Act I the libretto has not been traced. Immensely prolific writer for the theatre. Jaime, the son of the dramatist Ernest Jaime,Ĭollaborated with Gille on La Cour du roi Pétaud,Ĭontributed to a number of Offenbach’s librettos and was an Le Figaro under the pen-name ‘Masque de Fer’. Gille wrote a regular column called 'Echos' in After the novel Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel

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