Duclos, Charles Pinot
(1704–1772)> LIBRETTIST
Duclos, Charles Pinot (12 February 1704, Dinan; 26 March 1772, Dinan), librettist, lost his father in 1706 and passed his childhood and youth as a student in Rennes and Paris under the watchful eye of his mother. He returned to his native Brittany in 1724, but it was decided almost immediately that he should go to Paris again to study law. He wasted his time in the capital, however, and his alarmed mother bought a commission in the army for him. Suddenly realizing that life in the army might…