Saint-Marc, Jean-Paul-André Razins de
(1728–1818)> LIBRETTIST
Saint-Marc, Jean-Paul-André Razins de (1728, Guyenne; 11 October 1818, Bordeaux), librettist, was born of a noble family and served with the military from 1744 until 1762. After his return to civilian life on account of an accident, he composed some poetry and his first piece for the theatre entitled La Fête de Flore of 1771. His next contribution to the repertory of the Royal Academy of Music was the lyric tragedy Adèle de Ponthieu of 1772, which was not very well received, apparently, because…