Pierre-Charles Roy (1683 — 23 October 1764) was a French poet and man of letters, noted for his collaborations with the composers François Francoeur and...
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire (UK: /ˈboʊdəlɛər/, US: /ˌboʊd(ə)ˈlɛər/; French: [ʃaʁl(ə) bodlɛʁ] ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist...
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Les élémens (category Ballets by Pierre-Charles Roy)
celebratory epilogue later removed). The libretto was written by Pierre-Charles Roy. It was styled "the third ballet danced by the king" because the 11-year-old...
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Pierre Le Roy (1717–1785) was a French clockmaker. He was the inventor of the detent escapement, the temperature-compensated balance and the isochronous...
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tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Pierre-Charles Roy, is based on the story of Philomela as told in Ovid's Metamorphoses...
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Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve (31 December 1763 – 22 April 1806) was a French Navy officer who served during the French Revolutionary...
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Bradamante, composed by Louis Lacoste with a libretto written by Pierre-Charles Roy, was first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris...
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collaboration with Delalande, libretto by Roy (1721) Les stratagèmes de l'amour (ballet), libretto by Pierre-Charles Roy (26 March 1726). Le Carnaval et La Folie...
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libretto is by Pierre-Charles Roy. (in French) Libretto at "Livrets baroques"[permanent dead link] (in French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire...
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libretto is by François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel and Pierre-Charles Roy. (in French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, Paris, 1881,...
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tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Pierre-Charles Roy, is based on a story from The Description of Greece by Pausanias (see...
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October 17 – Giuseppe Guarneri, violin-maker (born 1698) October 23 – Pierre-Charles Roy, librettist and poet (born 1683) October 31 – Leonardo Leo, composer...
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Joseph Charles-Émile "Charley" Trudeau (July 5, 1887 – April 10, 1935) was a French Canadian attorney and businessman. He was the father of Pierre Trudeau...
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Charles Le Roy was the youngest of the four sons of French watchmaker Julien Le Roy (1686–1759). He had three brothers, the watchmaker Pierre Le Roy (1717–1785)...
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– Jean-Marie Leclair, composer (born 1697; murdered) October 23 – Pierre-Charles Roy, librettist and poet (born 1683) date unknown Josep Mir i Llussà,...
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libretto, by Pierre-Charles Roy, is based on a dialogue by Lucian of Samosata and concerns the Greek legend of Hippodamia. Félix Clément; Pierre Larousse...
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Dodsley, English miscellanist and bookseller (born 1703) October 23 – Pierre-Charles Roy, French poet and librettist (born 1683) November 1 – Agustín de Montiano...
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tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Pierre-Charles Roy, is based on Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. (in French) Libretto...
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Roy Michael Joseph Dupuis (French pronunciation: [ʁɔj dypɥi]; born April 21, 1963) is a Canadian actor best known in America for his role as counterterrorism...
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tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto is by Pierre-Charles Roy. The opera was very successful : the Regent's eldest daughter, the...
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1760) Johann David Heinichen, composer and music theorist (died 1729) Pierre-Charles Roy, librettist (died 1764) September 6 – Johann Melchior Gletle, organist...
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Françoise Hardy, and Charles Aznavour. He was an orchestra conductor from 1994 to 2004, as well as composer or arranger of film music with Pierre Bachelet, Michel...
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builder from La Rochelle. Pierre Trudeau was born at home in Outremont, Montreal, Quebec, on October 18, 1919, to Charles-Émile "Charley" Trudeau (1887–1935)...
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Pierre Marcel Poilievre PC MP (/ˌpɔːliˈɛv/ PAW-lee-EV; born June 3, 1979) is a Canadian politician who has served as the leader of the Conservative Party...
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Pierre Jean Marie Laval (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ laval]; 28 June 1883 – 15 October 1945) was a French politician. He served as Prime Minister of France...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) for his own music: Le devin du village Pierre-Charles Roy (1683–1764) for André Cardinal Destouches: Callirhoé for André Cardinal...
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Peter II, Count of Alençon (redirect from Pierre II, Count of Alencon)
1404; French: Pierre II d'Alençon, or Pierre de Valois), was Count of Alençon from 1361 and Count of Perche from 1377. He was the son of Charles II of Alençon...
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would-be assassin, Pierre de Craon, who had taken refuge in Brittany. John V, Duke of Brittany, was unwilling to hand him over, so Charles prepared a military...
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Pierre-Charles Le Mettay (19 July 1726, Fécamp - 29 March 1759, Paris) was a French painter, primarily of mythological scenes, and designer. His last name...
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Pageau Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau Félix Potvin Daniel Poulin Yves Preston Jean-Marc Richard Stéphane Richer Antoine Roussel André Roy Nicolas Roy Stéphane...
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