Lehoc, Louis-Grégoire
(1743–1810)> LIBRETTIST
Lehoc, Louis-Grégoire (1743, Paris; 15 October 1810, Paris), librettist, started his adult life as an administrator for the French government, and his ability induced Louis XVI to name him general commissioner in the navy department for the exchange of prisoners of war. When count de Choiseul-Gouffier went to Turkey as French ambassador, Lehoc was selected to accompany him to Constantinople as first secretary of the legation, but he was recalled in 1787 and made intendant of finances for the…