Louis Payen

Louis Payen, real name Albert Liénard, (1875 in Alès – 1927 in Épinay) was a French librettist. He was secretary general of the Comédie-Française.
He wrote several librettos for Massenet, Kunc etc.

• 1908: La Victoire à Orange. Revival at the Arènes de Nîmes in 1911
• 1911: Les Esclaves, three-act tragedy, created at the Théâtre des Arènes (fr) 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