“ PLANQUETTE, ROBERT (1850-⁠) , French musical composer, was born in Paris on the 31st of July 1850, and educated at the Conservatoire. As a boy he wrote songs and operettas for café concerts, and sprang into fame as the composer of Les Cloches de Corneville (Paris, 1877; London, 1878) . In this work he showed a fertile vein of melody, which won instant recognition. There is in his music a touch of pathos and romantic feeling, which, had he cared to cultivate it, would have placed him far above contemporary writers of opéra bouffe. ”