Bourgault-Ducoudray, Louis Albert

BOURGAULT-DUCOUDRAY, Louis Albert, French composer, born at Nantes Feb. 2, 1840, is a member of a family in easy circumstances, and is nephew of Billault, the famous minister of the second empire. Having gone through a complete course of classical studies, and entered the legal profession in 1859, he was received into Ambrcise Thomas's class at the Conservatoire, and in 1862 he carried off the first prize for composition. Though devoted to his art, Bourgault-Ducoudray has not produced much...