Delavigne, Jean-François Casimir
(1793–1843)> LIBRETTIST
Delavigne, Jean-François Casimir (4 April 1793, Le Havre; 11 December 1843, Lyon), librettist, pursued his academic studies in his native city and Paris. He began his career as a poet by writing a Dithyrambe sur la naissance du roi de Rome in 1811, which attracted Napoleon ’s attention and won him a modest position in the imperial government. When the emperor was defeated and overthrown in 1814-15, Delavigne published his Messéniennes which elicited Louis XVII I’s approval and obtained for him…