Died 28 January 1867, Le Vésinet, France |
Pierre Jean Hyacinthe Adonis (or Antoine) Galoppe d'Onquaire (April 16, 1805 (Montdidier) – 28 January 1867 (Le Vésinet)) was a French writer and playwright. Among his operetta librettos, Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin's setting of La Laitière de Trianon, "opéra de salon en 1 acte" is the best remembered, along with one song Ça fait peur aux oiseaux from the operetta Bredouille, set to music by Paul Bernard (composer).
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He was son of Louis-Joseph Hyacinthe Galoppe-Donquaire a merchant draper. After a brief spell as a military officer he became a writer, under the nickname his father had given him of "Cléon" Galoppe d'Onquaire, and wrote poetry and articles in Mémoires de l'Académie de la Somme.
Poetry, as Cléon Galoppe d'Onquaire, or "Pétrus Noël"
Comedies
Other
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