Alphonse-Marie-Denis de Vismes (or Devismes), called Saint-Alphonse, (1746 in Paris – 18 May 1792, id.) was an 18th-century French playwright and

librettist A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major litu ...

Biography

The brother of writer and musicographer Jacques de Vismes du Valgay, Saint-Alphonse was an artillery officer before becoming cabinet reader of

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and general director of the

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. Making literature his leisure, he was a member of the

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. He gave the

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''Les Trois Âges de l’Opéra'', music by Grétry (1778), revised in '' Amadis de Gaule'', an opera by

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on a music by

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(1779), ''L’Heureuse Réconciliation'' (1785), ''Rosanie'' (1780) an
''Eugénie et Linval, ou le Mauvais Fils''
(1798).

Sources

Ferdinand Hoefer Jean Chrétien Ferdinand Hoefer (German: ''Ferdinand Höfer'', 21 April 1811, Döschnitz – 4 May 1878) was a German-French physician and lexicographer. He is now known for his many works on the history of science. Selected works *''Élément ...

, « Alphonse-Marie-Denis de Vismes », ''Nouvelle Biographie générale'', t. 46, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1866, (p. 301).

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18th-century French dramatists and playwrights French opera librettists 1746 births Writers from Paris 1792 deaths {{France-playwright-stub