Dupaty, Louis-Emmanuel-Félicité-Charles Mercier
(1775–1851)> LIBRETTIST
Dupaty, Louis-Emmanuel-Félicité-Charles Mercier (31 July 1775, Saint-Martin de Blanquefort; 30 July 1851, Paris), librettist, was born into a family distinguished for its professional men and government servants, but he preferred to join the navy as an ordinary sailor in 1792. Unfortunately he grew disgusted with the disorder prevailing in his branch of the service during the Directoire and went absent without leave to return to Paris, where he was welcomed into the social whirl and became a…