Soumet, Alexandre
(1788–1845)> LIBRETTIST
Soumet, Alexandre (8 February 1788, Castel-naudary; 30 March 1845, Paris), librettist, studied mathematics at Toulouse to prepare himself for a career in engineering, but he abandoned this plan to devote himself to literature. He journeyed to Paris, where he published his first compositions, a laudium of Napoleon and a poem called L’Incrédulité (1810) defending the throne and altar policy while endorsing the concordat between the emperor and the pope. Like all the ambitious poets of his day, he…