The libretto, by the poet Paul Claudel, is based on his own play Le livre de Christophe Colomb about the life of Christopher Columbus.
Christophe Rousset | Christophe Lamaison | Christophe Barratier | Saint-Christophe | Christophe Lévêque | Christophe Bourseiller | Christophe Honoré | Christophe Hondelatte | Christophe Godin | Christophe Dechavanne | Christophe de Beaumont | Christophe Boesch | Christophe | Saint-Christophe, Aosta Valley | Philip Howard Colomb | Jean-Christophe Mitterrand | Jean-Christophe Menu | Georges Colomb | Christophe Veyrier | Christophe (singer) | Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière | Christophe Lemaire | Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain | Christophe de Thou | Christophe Bisciglia | Christophe Beck | Antoine Christophe Merlin | Zsigmondy's grave (left) in the cemetery of Saint-Christophe-en-Oisans | Saint-Christophe-sur-Guiers | Louis Christophe François Hachette |
Under the pseudonym Christophe (playing on "Christophe Colomb", the French name for Columbus), Colomb created comics that were popular among the French intelligentsia, yet were published in Le Petit Français illustré, a children's paper.