Moline de Saint-Yon, Alexandre-Pierre
(1786–1852)> LIBRETTIST
Moline de Saint-Yon, Alexandre-Pierre (1786, Lyon; 1852, Paris ?), librettist, was graduated from the military school at Fontainebleau in time to take part in the Napoleon ic campaigns in Austria, Prussia, Poland, and Spain. Wounded finally at Saint-Jean-de-Luz in 1813, he returned to France to recover. Later, he was assigned to ordinance by Napoleon during the Hundred Days and fought at Waterloo. The return of the Bourbons to the throne of France forced him into semi-retirement, but he…