Desfontaines, François-Guillaume Fouques
(1733–1825)> LIBRETTIST
Desfontaines, François-Guillaume Fouques DIT (1733, Caen; 21 November 1825, Paris), librettist, was librarian for the future Louis XVIII, and royal censor before the outbreak of the Revolution. When these positions were swept away in the upheaval, Desfontaines tried to accommodate himself to the situation, but his La Chaste Suzanne proved his undoing on account of its favorable allusions to Louis XVI . He managed to extricate himself from this difficult predicament, however, and he was careful…