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Bizet remained in relative obscurity
until 1872, when his incidental music for Daudet's "L'Arlésienne" won
him a degree of fame. It was at the suggestion of Camille du Locle,
director of the Opéra-Comique, that Bizet composed his opera 'Carmen'.
Bizet's librettists, Henri Leilhac and Ludovic Halévy, had based their
adaptation on a short novel by Prosper Mérimée.