Deschamps de Saint-Amand, Anne-Louis-Frédéric-Emile (20 February 1791, Bourges; 22 April 1871, Versailles), librettist, was assured an excellent education by his devoted father, who also obtained a government position for him at Vincennes. After the two sieges of this city at the end of the First Empire and the return of peace with the return of the Bourbons to the throne of France, Deschamps turned to literature and wrote a pair of hit comedies with H. de Latouche for the Odéon in 1818…