Murger, Henry

Related Category: French Literature: Biographies

(äNrē´ mürzhĕr´), 1822–61, French poet and novelist. His Scènes de la vie de Bohème (1845–49; tr., 1905, 1930), like many of his works, is a romantic and sentimental account of the life of struggling writers and artists. It provided the story for Puccini's opera La Bohème.