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    Michel-Jean Sedaine (2 June 1719 – 17 May 1797) was a French dramatist and librettist, especially noted for his librettos for opéras comiques, in which...
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  • déserteur (opera), a 1769 opera by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny and Michel-Jean Sedaine Le déserteur (1939 film) by Léonide Moguy, later retitled Je t'attendrai...
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  • (1716–1790) Jean-François de Saint-Lambert (1716–1803) Louis Carrogis Carmontelle (1717–1806 Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783) Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719–1797)...
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    Metamorphos'd by Charles Coffey (1731), and an opéra comique text by Michel-Jean Sedaine using the same material. The opera was first performed at the theatre...
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    identifying Cange. The story came public, written into a play by Michel-Jean Sedaine, and reported before the National Convention, where the President...
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  • French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (b. 1713) 1797 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French playwright and composer (b. 1719) 1801 – William Heberden...
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    songs for solo voice, Choix de chansons mises en musique illustrated by Jean-Michel Moreau. Many of the songs from the collection were later published individually...
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    François-André Danican Philidor and Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny. The dramatist Michel-Jean Sedaine wrote the text of his first opera for the company, Le diable à quatre...
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  • orphaned as children but were adopted by the dramatist and librettist Michel-Jean Sedaine. He introduced them to the painters Henri-Pierre Danloux and Jacques-Louis...
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  • 1769) 1719 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French playwright (d. 1797) 1729 – George Leonard, American lawyer, jurist and politician (d. 1819) 1753 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard...
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    acts by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny to a libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine based on a story by Stanislas-Jean de Boufflers. It was first performed in the Salle...
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    François-André Danican Philidor. The libretto was by Michel-Jean Sedaine, after a story by Jean de La Fontaine entitled Conte d'une chose arrivée à Château-Thierry...
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  • economist Jean-Baptiste de Mirabaud, 1726–1760, translator Claude-Henri Watelet, 1760–1786, painter Michel-Jean Sedaine, 1786–1793, poet and playwright Jean-François...
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    Miller of Mansfield by Robert Dodsley, and the opéra comique by Michel-Jean Sedaine (originally set by Monsigny). The opera was first performed at the...
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    Rose et Colas is a French opéra-comique in 3 acts by Michel-Jean Sedaine, music by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, first performed on the Théâtre-Français...
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    entrusted to Michel-Jean Sedaine. In the Sedaine family, the painting then passed into the collection of the Comte de Brissay, son-in-law of Sedaine. In 1860...
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  • comique by François-André Danican Philidor to a libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine after Jean de La Fontaine's "Les rémois" from the third part (1671) of...
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    de Caumont, duc de La Force (1715) Jean-Baptiste de Mirabaud (1726) Claude-Henri Watelet (1760) Michel-Jean Sedaine (1786) Collin d'Harleville (1803) Pierre...
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    Fagnano, Italian churchman and mathematician (b. 1715) May 17 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719) May 25 Andrew Elliot, acting colonial...
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  • keeping up with the latest trends in the theatre. Louis Anseaume, Michel-Jean Sedaine and Charles Simon Favart were among the most famous of these dramatists...
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    ISBN 9780810965188. Retrieved November 9, 2019 – via Google Books. "Bust of Madame Sedaine". collections.mfa.org. Retrieved 2020-11-02. Number P.47 in Jérémie Benoit's...
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    L'enfant trouvé by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny with a libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine, first performed at Fontainebleau on 10 November 1777, repeated at...
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  • Monsigny to a libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine. Opera Lafayette Otto Jahn - 2013 Life of Mozart: - Volume 2 -p12 ISBN 1108064833 Sedaine was so interested in...
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    musique, by the Belgian composer André Grétry. The French text was by Michel-Jean Sedaine. The work is generally recognised as Grétry's masterpiece and one...
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    savoir (The Philosopher who did not know he was a Philosopher) by Michel-Jean Sedaine, (1765); La Brouette du vinaigrier (The Vinegar Cart) by Louis-Sébastien...
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    this had been based on another opera of the same name (1766) by Michel-Jean Sedaine for Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny. Berwald may have known the Berton...
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    en musique, in three acts by André Grétry, The French text was by Michel-Jean Sedaine based on a play of the same name by Antoine-Marin Lemierre. It was...
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    orphaned as children but were adopted by the dramatist and librettist Michel-Jean Sedaine. He introduced them to the painters Henri-Pierre Danloux and Jacques-Louis...
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    opéra comique in three acts by André Grétry to a libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine, after Jean de La Fontaine; it was first performed on 4 March 1773 at Comédie-Italienne...
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  • 1726) May 17 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, librettist and writer (born 1719) May 28 – Anton Raaff, operatic tenor (born 1714) August 25 – Jean-Baptiste Louvet...
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