Mennechet, Edouard
(1794–1845)> LIBRETTIST
Mennechet, Edouard (25 March 1794, Nantes; 26 December 1845, Paris), librettist, distinguished himself as a young student in his native city and was sent to Paris to study law in 1813. In the capital, he wrote an ode celebrating the Bourbons’ return to power and became the private secretary of the duke de Duras. In 1817, he was made a member of the king’s household. Louis XVIII named him his reader in 1820 and his private secretary in 1821, and Mennechet held these two titles until the Bourbons…