Dejaure, Jean-Elie Bédéno
(1761–1790)> LIBRETTIST
Dejaure, Jean-Elie Bédéno (1761, Paris; 1790, Paris), librettist, wrote the librettos of Louise et Volsan (1790), Lodoïska (1791), Le Franc breton (1791), and La Fille naturelle (1792) for the Théâtre-Italien besides doing the poem for the very successful Montano et Stéphanie (1799) for the Opéra-Comique. His only composition for the Opéra was Astyanax of 1801 for which Kreutzer did the score. He also did seven comedies, each in a single act, in addition to composing an imitation of…