Lemonnier, Pierre-René

Lemonnier, Pierre-René (1731, Paris; 8 January 1796, Metz), librettist, was secretary to marshall de Maillebois and afterwards attached to the military branch of the government in Paris. He wrote nine pieces for the musical theatre, most of them for the Saint-Germain fair and the Théâtre-Italien, but he also did L’Union de l’amour et des arts in 1773, Azolan in 1774, and Hellé in 1779 for the Royal Academy of Music. His works for the Italian troupe included Le Bon Fils (1773), La Matrone…