DENNERY or D'ENNERY, ADOLPHE (PHILIFPE) (1811-1899), French dramatist and novelist, was born in Paris on June i7, 181r. He obtained his first success in collaboration with Charles Desnoyer in Emile, ou le fils d'un pair de France (1831), a drama which was the first of a series of some 200 pieces written alone or in collaboration with other dramatists. Les Deux Orphel ines (1875), perhaps his best piece, was written with Eugene Cor mon. With Louis Gallet and tdouard Blan he composed the book of Massenet's Cid (1885) ; and, again in collaboration with Eugene Cormon, the books of Auber's operas, Le Premier Jour de bon heur (1868) and Reve d'amour (1869). He died in Paris in 1899.