Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Louise is an opera in four acts by Gustave Charpentier to an original French libretto by the composer, with some contributions by Saint-Pol-Roux, a symbolist poet and inspiration of the surrealists. The opera depicts Parisian working-class life. However the city itself is in many ways the true star of this very atmospheric work. A French example of verismo opera, it tells the story of the love between Louise, a seamstress living with her parents in Paris, and Julien, a young artist. It is the story of a young girl''s desire for freedom (associated in her mind with her lover and the city of Paris). Charpentier later wrote a sequel to Louise, the opera Julien, which describes the artistic aspirations of Louise s suitor.