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blended Italian tunefulness with a careful setting of the French language. He was a versatile composer who expanded the range of opéra comique to cover a wide variety of subjects from the Oriental fairy tale Zémire et Azor (1772) to the musical satire of Le jugement de Midas (1778) and the domestic farce of [[L'amant jaloux]] (also 1778). His most famous work was the historical "rescue opera", Richard Coeur-de-lion

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