Baour-Lormian, Pierre-François-Marie
(1770–1854)> LIBRETTIST
Baour-Lormian, Pierre-François-Marie (24 March 1770, Toulouse; 28 December 1854, Paris), librettist, left his native city after divorcing a dull wife and converting into cash the large estate left to him by his prosperous father in 1795. Armed with a full purse and an adaptation of Jérusalem délivrée, Baour journeyed to Paris to share in the social whirl of the capital and to publish his work, but his first literary venture was a failure. He was calling himself Baour de Lormian or Baour-Lormian…