Bourgeois, Louis-Thomas

Bourgeois, Louis-Thomas (1676, Fontaine-L’Evêque in Hainaut; January 1750, Paris), composer, entered the Opéra initially as a vocalist in 1708 but left the troupe as early as 1711. He did not sever relations completely with the Royal Academy of Music, however, and he had his Les Amours déguisés presented at the Palais-Royal in 1713. Two years later, on 29 April 1715, his Les Plaisirs de la paix was billed at the same theatre. In about 1716 he left the capital to go to Toul, where he had been…