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
Maisons du Monde of the year a catalogue presenting its new collection. The Maisons du Monde group was bought back in 2013 (80%) by the American company Bain Capital for an amount of €680 million. In 2015, it achieved a turnover of 699 million euros, of which 460 million in France. February 2016 two US banks Goldman Sachs and Citigroup were mandated to prepare for the IPO. 265 stores in Europe: The brand sells online to the United Kingdom, Portugal, the Netherlands and Austria. Maisons du Monde Maisons du Monde is a French furniture and home decor company founded in Brest in 1990