Arnault, Antoine-Vincent
(1766–1834)> LIBRETTIST
Arnault, Antoine-Vincent (1 January 1766, Paris; 16 September 1834, Goderville), librettist, was as much a man of action and an administrator as an author. He was secretary to Madame, Louis XVI’s sister-in-law, in 1785, and he joined the household of Monsieur, Louis XVI’s brother, in 1787. All seemed to go well with him even after 1790, when his Marius a Minturnes (1791) was produced at the Comédie-Française, but his royalist leanings soon made him suspect at the start of the Terror in 1792…