n his beginnings he composed the renowned song “Marche de Sambre Et Meuse”, later he was devoted to academic music and was specialized in operettas. His main titles in this genre are: Mefie toi de Pharaon (1872); Le Serment de Madame Gregoire; (1874) Les Cloches de Corneville (1877); Babel-Revue (1879); Le Chevalier Gaston (1879); Les Voltigeurs de la 32 É (1880); La Cantiniere (1880); Rip (1882); Colombine (1884); La Cremaillere (1885); Surcouf (1885); La Cocarde Tricolore (1892); Le Talisman (1893); Panurge (1895); Mam'zelle Quat'sous (1897).

With the music of the waltz-serenata of his operetta “The Corneville Bells” (“Les cloches de Corneville”), Carlos Gardel recorded in Spanish “Las campanas [b]”. The record does not explain who wrote these lyrics.

Planquette was born in Paris on July 31, 1848 and there he died on January 28, 1903.