He gained recognition for his opera The Pearl Fishers, but is best known for a work based on his abandoned Don Rodrigue.  
He won a prize offered by Offenbach for the one-act operetta Le Docteur Miracle and received second at the 1856 Prix de Rome when no first prize was awarded.  Studying under Marmontel and Hal?y, his early works include the symphony Vasco da Gama and the opera Don Procopio, though his Roma Symphony aroused little interest.  In 1871 he composed Jeux d'enfants for children, which later became his Petite Suite.  He gained recognition for his opera The Pearl Fishers, but is best known for a work based on his abandoned Don Rodrigue.  FTP, identify this French composer of Carmen.
He won a prize offered by Offenbach for the one-act operetta Le Docteur Miracle and received second at the 1856 Prix de Rome when no first prize was awarded.  
Georges Bizet