La Patrie reconnaissante

La Patrie reconnaissante was billed as a heroic opera in a single act with music by Pierre Candeille and a libretto by Le Boeuf . It was produced on 3,5, and 15 February 1793 and then dropped permanently from the repertory. It was one of a number of compositions in a politico-patriotic vein that were mounted at the Opéra in 1793-94. The action of La Patrie reconnaissante takes place outside the walls of Sainte-Ménehould, where a group of artists and workers are finishing a tomb shaped like a…