Dercy, P.
> LIBRETTIST
Dercy, P. (?; ?), librettist, seems to have come and gone like a shadow in the years following the French Revolution, because neither he nor his contemporaries have left any information about the life of this librettist who helped to inaugurate the Imperial Academy of Music under Napoleon I. His Télémaque dans l’île de Calypso with music by Lesueur had already been produced at the Feydeau theatre in 1796, when his Ossian was performed at the Opéra on 10 July 1804. Lesueur had also done the…