Dieulafoy, Joseph-Marie-Armand-Michel
(1762–1823)> LIBRETTIST
Dieulafoy, Joseph-Marie-Armand-Michel (1762, Toulouse; 13 December 1823, Toulouse), librettist, held a post in the government of his native city before he left France to work on his family’s plantations in Santo Domingo. He was fortunate enough to escape the massacres in the Indies, however, and he was able to return to France by way of Philadelphia. He started his theatrical career after reaching home by writing a series of comedies, vaudevilles, and comic operas that attest to his diligence…