Bayard, Jean-François-Alfred
(1796–1853)> LIBRETTIST
Bayard, Jean-François-Alfred (20 March 1796, Charolles; 19 February 1853, Paris), librettist, was supposed to pursue a career before the bar but showed neither interest nor aptitude in this subject, while he was a clerk in the office of Guyonnet-Merville. Eugène Scribe had started his aborted study of the law with the same attorney, and this common experience of sharing in the same sort of failure in the same office seems to have induced Bayard and Scribe to become collaborators after the…