Claude Godard d'Aucourt called de Saint-Just (14 July 1768 – 17 March 1826) was a French

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. Born in Paris, he was the son of Claude Godard d'Aucour, marquis of , a fermier général. Being a younger son, he bore the name st-Just which was a dependent lordship of Plancy. He wrote the librettos of several opéras comiques by

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such as: *1797: ''L'Heureuse Nouvelle'' *1797: ''La Famille suisse'' *1798: ''Zoraïme et Zulnar'' *1799: ''Emma, ou la Prisonnière'' *1799: ''Les Méprises espagnoles'' *1800: ''

Le calife de Bagdad ''Le calife de Bagdad'' (''The Caliph of Baghdad'') is an ''opéra comique'' in one act by the French composer François-Adrien Boieldieu with a libretto by Claude Godard d'Aucourt de Saint-Just. Dedicated to the landscape painter Bidauld it wa ...

'' *1803: '' L'heureux malgré lui'' by

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*1806: ''

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'' by E. Méhul *1812: '' Jean de Paris''. He gave himself the collection of his ''Œuvres'' (Paris, 1826, 2 volumes in-8°). Godard d'Aucourt de Saint-Just's grave at

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His father had himself given some books of

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inspiration, including ''Les Mémoires turcs, avec l'Histoire galante de deux jeunes Turcs durant leur séjour en France'' (1745), which were very successful, or ''Thémidore ou Mon histoire et celle de ma maîtresse'' (1745). Claude Godard d'Aucourt died in Paris 17 March 1826 and is buried at cimetière du Père-Lachaise (19th division).

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* Jules Moiroux, ''Le cimetière du Père Lachaise'', Paris, S. Mercadier, 1908
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Godard d'Aucourt de Saint-Just Writers from Paris 1768 births 1826 deaths 18th-century French writers 18th-century French male writers French opera librettists Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery