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Grove Music Online
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Marcelle BENOIT (with Érik KOCEVAR) : 'Guichard, Henry, Sieur d’Hérapine', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 13 May 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Guichard, Henry, Sieur d’Hérapine
(b Paris, late 1634 or early 1635; d c1705). French architect and librettist. He was the son-in-law of the architect Le Vau and Intendant et ordonnateur des bâtiments to the Duke of Orleans. In 1670 he built a theatre for the productions of the Marquis of Sourdéac at the Jeu de Paume de la Bouteille, Paris; it closed in April 1672. In 1671 he helped with the production of a pastoral opera, Les amours de Diane et d’Endymion (with music by jean de Granouilhet), which was revived at St Germain-en-Laye in 1672 under the title Le triomphe de l’amour. He then came up against the privilege that Louis XIV granted to Lully in 1672; this ousted the pœt Pierre Perrin, with whom from 1671 Granouilhet and Guichard were associated. There followed a long lawsuit between Guichard and Lully, which turned to scandal when the singer Marie Aubry became involved. In 1674 Guichard obtained a privilege to found an ‘académie royale des spectacles’for the organization of carousels, tourneys, firework displays etc., but with a prohibition on ‘the singing of any piece of music’. He also tried to join forces with the stage designer Carlo Vigarani. But his continuing lawsuit with Lully was prejudicial to him and prevented the registration of his privilege in 1678. He therefore left for Madrid in 1679 with a company of 40 performers (including 13 singers and the violinist Michel Farinel and his wife, the harpsichordist Marie-Anne Cambert) to establish a musical academy there and to perform at the court of the queen (the Duke of Orleans’s daughter, Marie-Louise). False news of his death was given by the Mercure galant in January 1680 and contradicted in the February issue. On his return from Spain he settled in Valence, where his friend Daniel de Cosnac, Bishop of Valence and former chaplain to the Duke of Orleans, appointed him steward of the Hôpital Général on 5 October 1684. From October 1685 Guichard was prominent in the repression of Protestants, whom he imprisoned and tortured, and whose property he confiscated. In August 1687 he was removed from his post after a long trial where 30 witnesses testified against him. He then left Valence for Grenoble; his place of death is not known.
He may have written the text of a ballet set to music by Granouilhet in 1679 on the occasion of the peace treaty with Spain and certainly wrote the libretto of the opera Ulysse, with music by J.-F. Rebel, performed in 1703."
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AS
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LERIS (1763)
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pp. 591 : "Guichard (Henri). Il étoit Contrôleur des Bâtimens du Roi…."
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SAF