SAINT-GEORGES, THE CHEVALIER DE (née JOSEPH BOULOGNE). Composer/Concert violinist ( near Basse Terre, Guadeloupe, West Indies; in Paris, France). His family moved to Santo Domingo (now in the Dominican Republic) when he was an infant. He began music study at the age of five with local teacher Joseph Platon. About 1749 he went to Paris, France, with his natural father, Joseph Jean-Marie Boulogne. As a youth he studied fencing and won wide recognition for...