Saint-Huberty
AsCécile Clavel , known as Saint-Huberty , was a French Cantatrice , born with Strasbourg the December 15th 1756 and deceased with Barnes close to London the July 22nd 1812.
It was the girl of a musician, who made him traverse Europe, when its voice had been formed. With Warsaw, it met the type-setter Jean-Baptiste Moyne, known as Lemoyne, which supplemented its musical education. Of return in France, she married in 1774 the knight of Croissy, and she worked with the theater of Strasbourg until 1777.
Its successes made it come to Paris, where it began in the Armide from Christoph Willibald Gluck on September 23rd, 1777, but with little success. She lived then in a semi-misery, but devoted to its art, she sacrificed all to him. It is only the death or the retirement of its principal rivals, of which Sophie Arnould, which enabled him to become the first professional singer in title. Its career was nothing any more but one long continuation of success.
In 1790, it left the Opéra to follow her lover Louis-Alexandre de Launay, count d' Antraigues, which emigrated. They married each other secretly with Lausanne. They went then to Vienna and finally to London, where they perished both, assassinated by an Italian servant, who was killed at once. It is possible that it was a political crime which aimed her husband.
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