Desaugiers, Auguste-Félix
(1770–1836)> LIBRETTIST
Desaugiers, Auguste-Félix (1770, Fréjus; 1836, Paris), librettist, was the son of Marc-Antoine Désaugiers (see eighteenth-century volume for Marc-Antoine Desaugiers ). He embarked upon a diplomatic career and was sent to Rome in 1791. His next assignment took him to Copenhagen in 1793. He remained in Denmark for more than 20 years and was retired with the rank of general consul by the government of Napoleon and Louis XVIII . After his retirement in 1815, he continued his literary activity…