Aignan, Etienne
(1773–1824)> LIBRETTIST
Aignan, Etienne (9 April 1773, Beaugency; 21 June 1824, Paris), librettist, was an official of the revolutionary government in his native Loiret at the age of 19, when he dared to publish his La Mort de Louis XVI (1793). Apparently he saw no real peril in the direction his authorship was following, and his second tragedy was entitled Le Martyre de Marie Antoinette d’Autriche, reine de France (1793). He tried to counteract the promonarchy impression he was creating and delivered prorevolutionary…