A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Ferté, Papillon de la

FERTÉ, Papillon de la, became in 1777, by purchase, 'Intendant des Menus-plaisirs' to Louis XVI, and as such had the direction of the 'Ecole Royale de chant' founded by the Baron de Breteuil, and of the opera after the municipality had given up the administration of it. In 1790 he published a reply to a pamphlet by the artists of the opera—'Mémoire justificatif des sujets de l'Académie royale de musique'—in which they demanded a reform of the administration. His son occupied the same post after the Restoration.

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