Andrieux, François-Guillaume-Jean-Stanislas
(1759–1833)> LIBRETTIST
Andrieux, François-Guillaume-Jean-Stanislas (6 May 1759, Strasbourg; 9 May 1833, Paris), librettist, completed his studies in Paris in preparation for a career before the bar. He was received as a lawyer at age 22 but accepted a position as secretary to the duke d’Uzès and seemed ready to confine himself to the role of a general legal consultant. Left with free time, he began to write verse and had Anaximandre (1782) and Les Etourdis (1787) accepted for performance at the Théâtre-Italien. All…