Hardy-Thé, M.

Hardy-Thé, M. Lucien Hardy-Thé, a composer and salon singer (baritone), is the dedicatee of Ravel's Epigrammes de Clément Marot. He gave the first public performance of them. The family had a summer home »Le Borage« in the fashionable seaside resort Dinard, France. His wife, Alida le Bourgeois Jacquet (Durkee) Hardy-Thé, died at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York in November 1906. (Joseph H Durkee was her first husband; they married in 1894 in New Orleans.)