Paul Henrion, (23 June 1817 – 24 October 1901 [1]) was a 19th-century French composer.

Paul Henrion
Paul Henrion by Firmin Gillot, after a charge by Paul Hadol, 1861
Born6 June 1817
Died24 October 1901(1901-10-24) (aged 84)
Paris
OccupationComposer

President of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique of which he was a co-founder with Victor Parizot and Ernest Bourget, he was also a goguettier, member of the goguette du Poulet sauté [fr]. In a panorama of the world of songs published in 1882 in Le Figaro, the journalist considered him "a first-rate artist whose romances for salons were famous".[2] Henrion sometimes signed his compositions under the pseudonym Henri Charlemagne.

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