Cave, Hygin-Auguste

Cave, Hygin-Auguste (24 December 1794, Doudeville; 30 March 1852, Paris), librettist, was involved more in administration than in purely musical matters pertaining to the theatre, and he established his literary reputation with a political satire entitled Les Soirées de Neuilly , which he published prudently in 1827 under the pseudonym of Fougeray. He also collaborated on Le Globe, and the views he dared to express won him the favor of the new government after the Revolution of 1830 . He was…