Pellegrin, Simon-Joseph
(1663–1745)> LIBRETTIST
Pellegrin, Simon-Joseph (1663, Marseille; 5 September 1745, Paris), librettist, entered a religious community in Moutiers at an early age, but he became bored with this sequestered life before long and signed up as a chaplain on a vessel plying between France and North America. He returned to his native land permanently in 1703, and he decided to enter the poetry contest sponsored by the French Academy in 1704. His Epître sur le glorieux succès des armes de Sa Majesté carried off the laurels…