Le Boeuf, Jean-Joseph
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LeBoeuf, Jean-Joseph (?, Marseille; ?), librettist, was an actor in the provinces who has left little information about his life. Yet he made his mark at the Opéra with his two contributions of unequal worth. He reduced abbé Pellegrin’s Renaud ou la suite d’Armide of 1722 in five acts to a text of three acts for Sacchini to present as Renaud in 1783 (see seventeenth-century volume for abbé Pellegrin). His second composition for the stage of the Opéra was La Patrie reconnaissante of 1793, which…