Méry, Joseph
(1798–1865)> LIBRETTIST
Méry, Joseph (1798, Les Aygalades; 17 June 1865, Paris), librettist, entered the seminary of Marseilles to prepare for an ecclesiastical career, but he was expelled from this community for possessing a copy of Voltaire. He returned to public school to finish his classical studies and went on to law school at Aix, but he became involved in a duel and had to return to Marseille. The restoration of the Bourbons to the throne of France had give rise to bitter quarrels in southern France, and Méry…