Middle-class Thomas-Louis
Thomas-Louis Bourgeois is a Chanteur and Compositeur French born with Fountain-the Bishop (Hainaut) the October 24th 1676 and died with Paris in January 1750.
After having occupied the post of choirmaster to the cathedrals of Toul and Strasbourg, it is engaged in 1707 with the Opéra of Paris to sing the roles of High-against. It composes two works for this theater: Loves disguised (1713) and Pleasures of Peace (1715).
Entered to the service of the duke of Boubon, it then probably goes to Lille then to Brussels, where it directs the Théâtre of the Currency of November 1721 to Easter 1722. In 1725, it directs the theater of $the Hague, then is member of the “Academy of Music” of Dijon in 1728 and 1729. One finds it in Paris only starting from 1740.
He dies in poverty in 1750 (or in 1751 according to certain sources).
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