Vigée, Louis-Jean-Baptiste-Etienne
(1758–1820)> LIBRETTIST
Vigée, Louis-Jean-Baptiste-Etienne (2 December 1758, Paris; 7 August 1820, Paris), librettist, started his literary career with Les Aveux difficiles (1783), and a quarrel with the baron d’Estat over whether or not he had stolen the idea for this comedy from the baron brought his name before the public for the first time. He obtained a position as secretary with the royal family before the Revolution, and he managed to survive the Terror by proclaiming the virtues of republicanism, but his ties…