Pierre-Joseph Bernard
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Pierre-Joseph Bernard, called Gentil-Bernard by Voltaire for the measured grace of his discreetly erotic verses, was a French military man and salon poet with the reputation of a rake, the author of s
Pierre-Joseph Bernard
Les surprises de l'Amour
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Les surprises de l'Amour is an opéra-ballet in two entrées and a prologue by the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. It was first performed in Versailles on 27 November 1748. The opera is set to a l
Pierre-Joseph Bernard
…Bernard often declaimed it, and printed it. Bernard was also known for his Epistle to Claudine. For Rameau Bernard also provided libretti for the operas Les surprises de l'Amour (1748) and Anacréon (1757). His poem "Ô! Fontenay" was set as a romance by Joseph Denis Doche. In his book of biographical essays, Arsène Houssaye…
Jean-Philippe Rameau