François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet
François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet (10 April 1716 in Normanville – 2 August 1786 in Paris) was a French diplomat and playwright. He is chiefly remembered today as the librettist of Gluck's operas Iphigénie en Aulide and Alceste (1776 French version). He also co-wrote (with Louis-Théodore de Tschudi) the libretto for Salieri's opera Les Danaïdes.[1]
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- ^ Bibliothèque nationale de France. François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet. Retrieved 28 August 2014 (in French).
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- Writers from Normandy
- 1716 births
- 1786 deaths
- French opera librettists
- 18th-century French dramatists and playwrights
- 18th-century French diplomats
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