Théaulon, Marie-Emmanuel-Guillaume-Marguerite de Lambert
(1787–1841)> LIBRETTIST
Théaulon, Marie-Emmanuel-Guillaume-Marguerite de Lambert (14 August 1787, Aigues-Mortes; 16 November 1841, Paris), librettist, went to Montpellier to study law and then worked in a lawyer’s office at Nîmes, but he began to show a greater interest in poetry and attracted some attention with an ode on Napoleon ’s victory at Iéna. After this first modest success in letters, he set out for Paris and glory in 1808. A powerful relative got him a minor government post to sustain him in the capital…