Around the same time, Leoncavallo & this man both wrote operas based on the novel "Scenes de la vie de boheme"
[DOC] [TLE] LA VIE DE BOHEME Program Notes - Austin Film Society [PAR] Henri Murger's novel Scenes de la vie de boheme (1851) has proven to be fertile 
... Operas, a play, and films have been based on or inspired by Murger's ... of his 
novel; Puccini's opera La Boheme (1896); Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera La ...