Louis Ratisbonne
Tchaikovsky Research
French writer (b. 29 July 1827 [N.S.] in Strasbourg; d. 24 September 1900 [N.S.] in Paris), born Louis Gustave Fortuné Ratisbonne.
Tchaikovsky's Settings of Works by Ratisbonne
Aleksey Pleshcheyev's translation of Ratisbonne's poem La Petite fleur was set by Tchaikovsky in 1883 as The Little Flower (Цветок), No. 11 of the Sixteen Songs for Children, Op. 54.