Maréchal, Pierre-Sylvain
(1750–1803)> LIBRETTIST
Maréchal, Pierre-Sylvain (15 August 1750, Paris; 18 January 1803, Montrouge), librettist, studied law and became a lawyer in the Paris Parliament as well as serving on the library staff of the Mazarin collège. He started his literary career with an eighteenth-century-style volume of verse entitled Bergeries (1770), but he abandoned this manner before long to become the poet laureate of atheism and liberty in keeping with the spirit of the Revolution. He was a diligent worker, but he entertained…