[Alexandre Charles Auguste]. French dramatist, born at Briouze on the 9th of August 1848. Going to Paris, he entered the department of public instruction, but remained only a short time, retiring that he might devote himself to dramatic literature, and became an author of vaudevilles, comedies and operettas. Among his productions are Quatre Coups de Canif (1875); Le Chevalier Baptiste (1874); Un Voyage d’Agrément (1881); Rue Pigalle (1882); Ninette (1882); Le Député de Bombignac (1884); Ma Gouvernante (1887); Le Roi Koko (1887); Feu Toupinel (1890), etc. M. Bisson was also one of the authors of Grammaire de la Musique (1879); of Petit Traité de Composition Musicale (1881); and Petite Encyclopédie Musicale (1881–83).
