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 Monde diplomatique "Le Monde", was attributed by "Le Monde diplomatique"s former director general Bernard Cassen as saying: ""Le Monde diplomatique" is a journal of opinion; "Le Monde" is a journal of opinions." The Norwegian version of the July 2006 "Le Monde diplomatique" sparked interest when the editors ran, on their own initiative, a three page main story on the September 11, 2001 attacks and summarised the various types of 9/11 conspiracy theories (which were not specifically endorsed by the newspaper, only reviewed). The Voltaire Network, which has somehow changed position since the 11 September attacks and whose director, Thierry Meyssan, became a