Émile Moreau

Marie-Jules-Émile Moreau (8 December 1852 – 27 December 1922), better known as Émile Moreau, was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist.

Aged 17 he volunteered for the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 and participated to the Côte-d'Or and Armée de l'Est campaigns with general Bourbaki.

In 1887 he was awarded a poetry prize by the Académie française for Pallas Athénée.

The composer Paul Vidal won the first prix de Rome in 1883 with his cantata Le Gladiateur on a libretto by Moreau, and Auguste Chapuis the prix Rossini in 1886 with Les Jardins d'Armide.

He has sometimes been confused with Émile Moreau, the French businessman who was one of the co-founders of the Indian bookstore chain A. H. Wheeler & Co.