Delrieu, Etienne-Joseph Bernard

Delrieu, Etienne-Joseph Bernard (1760, Rodez; 4 November 1836, Paris), librettist, was a schoolteacher in Versailles in 1789, and he came into public view for the first time with his patriotic compositions celebrating the ideals of the Revolution: “La Liberté,” an ode of 1791; Apothéose de Marat et de Lepelletier, a “lyric scene” extolling liberty and equality; Nouveau recueil de poésies patriotiques of 1794, a collection of nationalistic anthems. He also did a comedy during this interval, Le…