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Grove Music Online
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Paulette LETAILLEUR: 'Propiac, Girard de', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 15 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Propiac, (Catherine Joseph Ferdinand) Girard de
(b Dijon, 1759; d Paris, 31 Oct 1823). French man of letters and composer. He began composing at an early age and made his début in 1787 at the Comédie-Italienne with Isabelle et Rosalvo and Les deux morts, both opéras comiques. Between 1787 and 1790 he composed three more, which had some success. He emigrated in 1791, served in Condé’s anti-Revolutionary army and stayed for a time in Hamburg. He returned to Paris after Napoleon came to power in November 1799 and under the Consulate (1799–1802) obtained a post as archivist to the Prefecture of the Seine. Thereafter he devoted himself almost exclusively to literature, though he composed two minor opéras comiques, La double apothéose (1800) and La pension des jeunes garçons (1801), which were probably occasional works, performed in small theatres."
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