du Roullet, Marie-François-Louis Gand Lebland
(1718–1786)> LIBRETTIST
du Roullet, Marie-François-Louis Gand Lebland , DIT Le Bailly (1718, Normanville, Eure; 1786 ?), librettist, was a commander of the Order of Malta and attached to the French embassy in Vienna. He is remembered for having promoted the production of Gluck’s works in Paris and for having written the librettos for some of the scores that Gluck composed for the Royal Academy of Music: Iphigénie en Aulide of 1774; Alceste of 1776; and Les Danaïdes of 1784, which was really more the creation of…