La Réunion du 10 août ou l’inauguration de la république française

La Réunion du 10 août ou l’inauguration de la république française was offered as a “sans-culottide dramatique” in five acts and verse “mixed with declamations, songs, dances and military configurations.” This novel opera designed to memorialize the sans-culottes, or ill-clad rabble, of the revolutionary era was dedicated to “the Sovereign People”; it had its world premiere at the Opéra on 5 April 1794. Moline , a clerk attached to the Convention, and G. Bouquier , a member of the National…