Cuvelier de Trie, Jean-Guillaume-Auguste
(1766–1821)> LIBRETTIST
Cuvelier de Trie, Jean-Guillaume-Auguste (15 January 1766, Boulognesur-Mer; 25 May 1821, Paris), librettist, completed his academic studies in Paris and was licensed to practice law in Boulogne. After obtaining a captaincy in the National Guard in 1790, he took a position with the government in the Department of Public Education. Napoleon’s plans for invading England prompted him to serve in the army as an officer in the interpreter corps, but changes in the emperor’s plans obliged him to fight…