Writing · Writer
Born Aug 29, 1789 · Douai, France
Active 1987–1855 · Awards: Knight of the Legion of Honour
Hippolyte Louis Florent Bis, was an early 19th-century French playwright and librettist. He is mostly known for the libretto to Gioachino Rossini's opera William Tell, which he wrote with Étienne de Jouy.