Louis IX en Egypte

Louis IX en Egypte was billed as an opera in three acts with a musical score by Lemoyne and words by Guillard and Andrieux. It had its premiere in Paris on 15 June 1790, but its glorification of a saintly French king was scarcely in harmony with the times, and it was dropped from the repertory after its tenth performance on 10 September 1790. The libretto is based upon a plot by the sultan of Egypt to assassinate Louis IX and the sultana’s decision to protect him because her husband, Méleck…