Louis-Henri Murger, also known as Henri Murger and Henry Murger was a French novelist and poet.
He is chiefly distinguished as the author of Scènes de la vie de bohème , which is based on his own experiences as a desperately poor writer living in a Parisian garret and as a member of a loose club of friends who called themselves "the water drinkers" . In his writing he combines instinct with pathos, humour, and sadness. The book is the basis for the opera La bohème by Puccini, Leoncavallo's opera of the same name, and, at greater removes, the zarzuela Bohemios , the operetta Das Veilchen vom Montmartre , and the Broadway musical Rent. He wrote lyrics as well as novels and stories, the chief being La Chanson de Musette, "a tear," says Gautier, "which has become a pearl of poetry".
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“Study is the child of silence and mystery.”
Source: The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter: Scenes de la Vie de Boheme
