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Le Mancenillier Op. 11 is a Creole-based composition for piano written by American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk in Switzerland in the fall of 1848. Dedicated to Madame Mennechet de Barival it was published in Paris with the subtitle Sérénade by his publisher ‘Escudiers’ in April 1851. It is the fourth and last piece dubbed by musicologist Gilbert Chase the Louisiana Trilogy written between 1844 and 46 when Gottschalk had not yet come of age.