Dubois, François Clément Théodore

Dubois, François Clément Théodore (24 August 1837, Rosnay; 11 June 1924, Paris), composer, studied at the Conservatoire in Paris, where he won the Prix de Rome in 1861. He produced his first work for the theatre in 1873, and he succeeded Camille Saint-Saëns as organist at the Madeleine in 1877. He served as director of the Conservatoire between 1896 and 1905, and he became an officer in the Legion of Honor in 1896. Dubois wrote four operas for the theatre, and the first of them entitled La…