Albert Liénard, known as Louis Payen (1875 – 1927) was a French librettist. He was secretary general of the Comédie-Française.
He wrote several librettos for Massenet, Kunc etc.
Works 1908: La Victoire à Orange. Revival at the Arènes de Nîmes in 1911 1911: Les Esclaves, three-act tragedy, created at the in Béziers, 27–29 August 1911, music by Aymé Kunc, 1912: La monnaie de singe, four-act comedy (cowritten with Lucie Delarue-Mardrus Cléopâtre, four acts, music by Jules Massenet. Premiered posthumously in 1914. La Femme nue, drame lyrique in four acts, after the play by Henry Bataille, music by Henry Février
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