Jacques-Marie Deschamps (1750, Paris – 1826) was an 18th–19th-century French playwright, librettist and writer. During the French First Empire, Deschamps was Joséphine de Beauharnais's "secrétaire des commandements" and remained at her service after the divorce from Napoléon. Deschamps presented ''la Revanche forcée'' (1792), ''Piron chez ses amis'' (1792), ''Poinsinet ou que les gens d’esprit sont bêtes'' (1793), ''Dufresny ou le Mariage impromptu'' (1796) at Théâtre du Vaudeville as well as some other plays in collaboration with Barré, Radet, Desfontaines,

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''Claudine'' (1794), oratorios, etc. He authored the lyrics of a ''Hymne à l'Étre Suprême'' sung by children 20 prairial an II. Deschamps gave the Théâtre des Arts ''Le Pavillon du Calife, ou Almanzor et Zobéïde'', opera in two acts and in free verse, in collaboration with

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Étienne Morel de Chédeville Étienne Morel de Chédeville (10 October 1751 in Paris - 13 July 1814 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist. He wrote the librettos for the following operas: *1783 : ''La caravane du Caire'' by André G ...

, music by Nicolas Dalayrac, 12 April 1804 (22 germinal an XII ). This opera wasn't performed after the third presentation. He also translated some novels from English such as '' A Simple Story'' by Elizabeth Inchbald (1796, 2 vol. in-8°) among others, and gave a French version in verse of ''Il bardo della Selva Nera'' by Vincenzo Monti, (1807, in-8°). Deschamps wrote the libretto for '' Ossian, ou Les bardes'', opera by Jean-François Le Sueur (1804). He collaborated with the ''Journal littéraire'' of Clément de Dijon.

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* Charles Dezobry,

Théodore Bachelet Jean-Louis-Théodore Bachelet (15 January 1820 – 26 September 1879) was a 19th-century French historian and musicologist. Biography Aftr studying at the Lycée Pierre-Corneille in Rouen and the Lycée Hoche in Versailles, he entered the Éco ...

and a Société of writers, professors and scholars, ''Dictionnaire général de biographie et d'histoire de mythologie, de géographie ancienne et moderne comparée, des antiquités et des institutions grecques, romaines, françaises et étrangères'', vol. 1, Paris, Charles Delagrave et Cie, 1866, 4th ed. (1st ed. 1857), VII-993 p., 2 vol. and supplement, (p. 780). * Gustave Vapereau, ''Dictionnaire universel des littératures'', vol. 1, Paris, Hachette, 1876, XVI-2096 p., 3 vol. ; 25 cm, (p. 613) col. 1 et 2.

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