Boieldieu

[ bwa-el-dyœ ]

noun

1. Fran·çois A·dri·en [f, r, ah, n, -, swa, , a, -d, r, ee-, an], 1775–1834, French composer.

Example Sentences

The Opéra Comique has stood, in one form or another, on the discreet Place Boieldieu in central Paris since 1783, making it one of the oldest performance sites in the city.

From Seattle Times

The previous record for a Pissarro painting was set in 2009, when Le Pont Boieldieu Et La Gare D'Orleans Rouen, Soleil sold for £4.3 million.

From BBC

They would not act thus in France with regard to Boieldieu; independent of all love of art, a sense of propriety would prevent their doing so: but enough of this subject, for it is too vexatious.

From Project Gutenberg

His true forebears are not Rameau, Couperin, Boieldieu, Bizet, Saint-Sa�ns, but Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarm�; and, beyond his own frontier, Rossetti and Maeterlinck.

From Project Gutenberg

But is there among them a Mozart, a Bellini, a Michael Kelly, an Auber, a Boieldieu?

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