Died 13 January 1832 | ||
Antoine-François Le Bailly (or Lebailly), (1 April 1756, Caen – 13 January 1832, Paris) was a French librettist and fabulist.
Antoine Le Bailly authored some operas, but is mostly known for his fables.
A first collection was published under the title Fables nouvelles, suivies de poésies fugitives (Paris, 1784, in-12 ; a second one under that of Fables nouvelles (Ibid., 1814, in-12). In a third edition (1823, in-8°), Le Bailly replaced the verse of the epilogue in praise of Napoléon by verse in honor of the Bourbons.
He also composed Corisandre, comédie-opéra (Paris, 1792, in-4°) ; Diane et Endymion, opera (Ibid., 1814, in-12) ; le Procès d’Ésope avec les animaux, one-act comedy, in verse and in prose (Paris, 1812, in-12) ; le Gouvernement des animaux, poème ésopéen (Ibid., 1816, in-8°) ; Arion, ou le pouvoir de la musique (Ibid. , 1817, in-8°) ; la Chute des Titans, ou le retour d’Astrée, cantata to mark the coronation of Charles X (Ibid., 1825, in-8°), etc.