Fabius

Fabius was presented as a lyric tragedy in three acts with music by Le Froid de Méreaux and words by Joseph-Marie-Désiré-Martin Barouillet . It had its premiere on 9 August 1793. It proved to be quite popular at first on account of the patriotic sentiments it conveyed at a time when France was at war, and it was billed on 14 dates the year of its premiere. Its rhetoric proved incapable of holding audiences over a long period of time, however, and it had to be dropped after its second…