Le voyage dans la lune (operetta) but due to the need to raise the necessary money he did not take up the project. Eventually Albert Vizentini, the new directeur of the Gaîté, took up the idea, and Offenbach's contribution was limited to that of composer. Albert Vanloo and Eugène Leterrier, in association with Arnold Mortier (columnist at Figaro), wrote the libretto. They were hoping for a repeat of the success of the novels of Jules Verne (another, the novel "Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours", had been adapted for the stage at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin by Verne himself in 1874) and the
Le Tour du Monde Le Tour du Monde Le Tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages was a French weekly travel journal first published in January 1860. It also bore the name of "Le Tour du monde, journal des voyages et des voyageurs" (1895–1914). "Le Tour du monde" (Around the world) was created in January 1860 by Édouard Charton, designer of the "Magasin pittoresque", under the aegis of the Librairie Hachette : every six months, the weekly booklets sold through the network of railway stations, gathered in one volume, which was offered in bookstore. A second series was inaugurated in 1895 under the title