La permission de dix heures is a one act opéra comique of 1867 with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto, by Mélesville and Pierre Carmouche, was arranged by Nuitter with the agreement of Carmouche from the comédie-vaudeville by the same authors, first performed at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal on 17 April 1841.Offenbach's opéra comique premiered in Bad Ems and had a Paris production but did not enter the repertoire.