Gresac, Fred[erique Rosine] De (1866–1943), playwright. The French wife of the famed opera singer Victor Maurel and a celebrated journalist in France, she was also a successful playwright and librettist. Among her better‐known librettos were The Enchantress (1911) and Sweethearts (1913), both written with Harry B. Smith; The Purple Road (1913) with William Cary Duncan; Flo‐Flo (1917); and Orange Blossoms (1922), which was based on her play La Passerelle.


