Chaillou Des Barres, Claude-Etienne
(1784–1857)> LIBRETTIST
Chaillou Des Barres, Claude-Etienne (6 June 1784, Beaumont-la-Ferrière; 22 August 1857, Paris), librettist, was more involved in political affairs than in musical matters. He was appointed to the staff of the Council of State in 1805 and married Marguerite-Nicole Nompère de Champagny , daughter of the duke of Cadore, in 1806. He was transferred to the position of intendant of Lower Silesia after the war with Prussia, and the competency of his administration won him the Grand Cross of Civil…