François-Joseph de LA GRANGE-CHANCEL
François-Joseph Chancel, seigneur de La Grange.
Born on 1 January 1677 in Périgueux, France.
Died on 29 December 1758 at the château of Antoniac in Razac, France.
Wikipedia: English,
French.
Categories: Tragedies,
Comedies,
Operas,
Prologues,
Cantatas,
Poems and Epistles,
Requests,
Collections.
TRAGEDIES
Adherbal, roi de Numidie (1694).
First performed at the Comédie-Française (Théâtre des Fossés Saint-Germain) in Paris on 8 January 1694. Five performances in 1694. Published in Paris by the widow of Pierre Boüillerot in 1694. Printed from 1734 as Jugurtha, which was the title of this tragedy before its first performance.
French: 1694 (Paris);
1699 (Paris);
1702 (Amsterdam);
1719 (Paris);
1734 and 1735 (Paris);
1746 (Amsterdam);
1758 (Paris).
Dutch: Jugurtha (Rudolph Marcus, 1759).
Oreste et Pylade (1697).
First performed at the Comédie-Française in Paris on 11 December 1697. Forty-nine performances (twenty-six in 1697–1699, nine in 1701–1709, eight in 1722 and six in 1738). Published in Paris by Pierre Ribou in 1699.
French: 1699 (Paris);
1700 (Amsterdam);
1707 (Amsterdam);
1729 (Paris);
1734 and 1735 (Paris);
1746 (Amsterdam);
1758 (Paris).
Dutch: Orestes en Pylades, of Iphigenia in Tauris (Matthijs Bode, 1702; see also
1710,
1729 and
1750).
Méléagre (1699).
First performed at the Comédie-Française in Paris on 28 January 1699. Eleven performances in 1699. Published in Paris by Pierre Ribou in 1699.
French: 1699 (Paris);
1702 (Amsterdam);
1734 and 1735 (Paris);
1746 (Amsterdam);
1758 (Paris).
Dutch: Meleager (anonymous, 1709).
Athénaïs (1699).
First performed at the Comédie-Française in Paris on 20 November 1699. Nineteen performances (eleven in 1699 and eight in 1736). Published in Paris by Pierre Ribou in 1700.
French: 1700 (Paris);
1702 (Amsterdam);
1729 (Paris);
1734 and 1735 (Paris);
1746 (Amsterdam);
1758 (Paris).
Dutch: Athénaïs (Pieter Anthony de Huybert van Kruiningen, 1711; see also
1746).
Italian: Atenaide (anonymous, 1717; see also
1719).
Amasis (1701).
First performed at the Comédie-Française in Paris on 13 December 1701. Sixty-two performances (fourteen in 1701–1702, thirty-four in 1731–1740, nine in 1753–1760 and five in 1761–1764). Published in Paris by Pierre Ribou in 1701.
French: 1701 (Paris);
1702 (Paris);
1702 (Amsterdam);
1729 (Paris);
1731 (Paris);
1735 (Paris);
1746 (Amsterdam);
1755 (Augsburg);
1758 (Paris);
1818 (Paris).
Dutch: Sesostris, koning van Egypte (Jan Jacob Mauricius, 1712; see also
1735).
German: Amasis (Franz Rudtorffer, 1783).
Alceste (1703).
First performed at the Comédie-Française in Paris on 19 December 1703. Six performances in 1703–1704. Published in Paris by Pierre Ribou in 1704.
French: 1704 (Paris);
1733 (The Hague);
1735 (Paris);
1746 (Amsterdam);
1758 (Paris).
Ino et Mélicerte (1713).
First performed at the Comédie-Française in Paris on 10 March 1713. Fifty-three performances (nineteen in 1713–1714, ten in 1729–1730, thirteen in 1742–1749, seven in 1756–1759 and four in 1767). Published in Paris by Pierre Ribou in 1713.
French: 1713 (Paris);
1715 (Paris);
1733 (The Hague);
1735 (Paris);
1746 (Amsterdam);
1758 (Paris);
1760 (The Hague);
1765 (Paris);
1822 (Paris).
English: Ino and Melicertes (Lacy Lockert, 1968).
Sophonisbe (1716).
First performed at the Comédie-Française in Paris on 10 November 1716. Four performances in 1716. Four lines published in Nouveau recueil de pièces fugitives in 1717. Complete text published by the Bibliothèque universitaire of Lille in 1956.
French: 1717 (Paris; pages 153–154);
Lille (1956).
Érigone (1731).
First performed at the Comédie-Française in Paris on 17 December 1731. Eight performances in 1731–1732. Published in Paris by the widow of Pierre Ribou in 1732.
French: 1732 (Paris);
1732 (Utrecht);
1735 (Utrecht);
1735 (Paris);
1746 (Amsterdam);
1758 (Paris).
Cassius et Victorinus, martyrs (1732).
First performed at the Comédie-Française in Paris on 6 October 1732. Eleven performances in 1732–1733. Published in Paris by the widow of Pierre Ribou in 1733.
French: 1733 (Paris);
1734 (The Hague);
1735 (Brussels);
1735 (Paris);
1746 (Amsterdam);
1755 (Munich);
1758 (Paris);
1765 (Paris; reprint of 1733);
1784 (Paris; reprint of 1733).
Orphée (1735).
Written about 1724. Unperformed. Published in Paris by (the widow of) Pierre Ribou in 1735, in Œuvres, vol. 3.
French: 1735 (Paris);
1746 (Amsterdam);
1758 (Paris);
2021 (Paris).
Pygmalion.
Written about 1727. Unperformed. Forty-two lines published in the preface of Orphée in 1758, the rest unpublished.
French: 1758 (Paris; pages 65–68).
La mort de Joas.
Unperformed. Unpublished.
COMEDIES
La fille supposée, ou L’héroïne de roman (1713).
First performed at the Comédie-Française in Paris on 11 May 1713. Four performances in 1713. Unpublished.
Les jeux olympiques, ou Le prince malade (1729).
With musical intermezzi by Jean-Joseph Mouret. First performed at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris on 12 November 1729. Published in Paris by (the widow of) Pierre Ribou in 1735, in Œuvres, vol. 3.
French: 1735 (Paris);
1746 (Amsterdam);
1758 (Paris).
Le mariage rompu, ou Le carnaval à Périgueux (1873).
Written circa 1740. Unperformed. Published in L’Écho de la Dordogne of 23 February 1873.
French: 23 February 1873 (view 89/108; eighteen lines expurgated);
22 November 1900 (two lines bowdlerised).
Several other comedies were mistakenly attributed to François-Joseph de La Grange-Chancel by some bibliographers: L’Italien marié à Paris (1737) and Le rajeunissement inutile (1738), actually written by Nicolas La Grange (1707–1767), and La fille petit-maître (1769), written by François-Joseph’s son, François-Victor Chancel de La Grange (1712–1803).
OPERAS
Médus, roi des Mèdes (1702).
Music by François Bouvard. First performed at the Académie royale de Musique in Paris on 23 July 1702. Libretto published in Paris by Christophe Ballard in 1702.
French: manuscript (score);
manuscript (score);
manuscript (score);
1702 (Paris; score);
1702 (Paris);
1703 (Paris);
1705 (Amsterdam);
1716 (The Hague);
1735 (Paris);
1746 (Amsterdam);
1758 (Paris);
2021 (Paris).
Cassandre (1706).
Music by François Bouvard and Toussain Bertin de La Doué. First performed at the Académie royale de Musique in Paris on 22 June 1706. Libretto published in Paris by Christophe Ballard in 1706.
French: 1706 (Paris);
1707 (Amsterdam);
1710 (Paris);
1735 (Paris);
1746 (Amsterdam);
1758 (Paris);
2021 (Paris).
Ariane (1717).
In collaboration with Pierre-Charles Roy. Music by Jean-Joseph Mouret. First performed at the Académie royale de Musique in Paris on 6 April 1717. Libretto published in Paris by Pierre Ribou in 1717.
French: 1717 (Paris);
1734 (Paris);
2021 (Paris).
Pyrame et Thisbé (1758).
Unperformed. Published in Paris by Les libraires associés in 1758, in Œuvres, vol. 4.
French: 1758 (Paris).
La mort d’Ulysse (1758).
Unperformed. Published in Paris by Les libraires associés in 1758, in Œuvres, vol. 4.
French: 1758 (Paris).
Le crime puni (1758).
Unperformed. Published in Paris by Les libraires associés in 1758, in Œuvres, vol. 4.
French: 1758 (Paris);
2021 (Paris).
The libretto of Les fêtes de Thétis (1750), with music by François Colin de Blamont and Bernard de Bury, was mistakenly attributed to La Grange-Chancel by a bibliographer. It was written by Pierre-Charles Roy.
PROLOGUES
Prologue aux bourgmestres d’Amsterdam (1724).
Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
La forêt embrasée (1735).
Published in Paris by (the widow of) Pierre Ribou in 1735, in Œuvres, vol. 3. Unperformed.
French: 1735 (Paris);
1758 (Paris).
Prologue d’Ériphile (1758).
Published in Paris by Les libraires associés in 1758, in Œuvres, vol. 4.
French: 1758 (Paris).
CANTATAS
La lyre d’Anacréon (1724).
Music by Thomas-Louis Bourgeois. Text published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées. Score published in Paris by Boivin circa 1740.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
c. 1740 (Paris; score);
1758 (Paris).
L’Amour prisonnier de la beauté (1724).
Music by Thomas-Louis Bourgeois. Text published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées. Score published in Paris by Boivin circa 1740.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
c. 1740 (Paris; score);
1758 (Paris).
L’Amour mouillé (1724).
Music by Thomas-Louis Bourgeois. Text published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées. Score published in Paris by Boivin circa 1740.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
c. 1740 (Paris; score);
1758 (Paris).
La vieillesse d’Anacréon (1724).
Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
L’Amour piqué par une abeille (1724).
Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
Le songe d’Anacréon (1724).
Music by Thomas-Louis Bourgeois. Text published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées. Score published in Paris by Boivin circa 1740.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
c. 1740 (Paris; score);
1758 (Paris).
L’Amour médecin (1724).
Music by Thomas-Louis Bourgeois. Text published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées. Score published in Paris by Boivin in 1742.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1742 (Paris; score);
1758 (Paris).
La colombe d’Anacréon (1724).
Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
Le combat d’Anacréon contre l’Amour (1724).
Music by Thomas-Louis Bourgeois. Text published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées. Score published in Paris by Boivin circa 1740.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
c. 1740 (Paris; score);
1758 (Paris).
La coupe d’Anacréon (1724).
Music by Thomas-Louis Bourgeois. Text published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées. Score published in Paris by Boivin circa 1740 as La coupe d’Anacréon ou Le mépris des richesses.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
c. 1740 (Paris; score);
1758 (Paris).
L’inconstance punie (1724).
Music by Thomas-Louis Bourgeois. Text published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées. Score published in Paris by Boivin circa 1740.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
c. 1740 (Paris; score);
1758 (Paris).
L’Amour peintre (1724).
Music by Thomas-Louis Bourgeois. Text published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées. Score published in Paris by Boivin circa 1740.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
c. 1740 (Paris; score);
1758 (Paris).
Mars blessé par l’Amour (1724).
Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
La cigale (1724).
Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
Minerve et l’Amour (1724).
Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
La mort d’Adonis (1724).
Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
La chasse des oiseaux (1724).
Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
L’Amour musicien (1724).
Music by Thomas-Louis Bourgeois. Text published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées. Score published in Paris by Boivin in 1744.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1744 (Paris; score);
1758 (Paris).
Achille et Déidamie (1724).
Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
L’académie de Bordeaux (1724).
Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
Le coucou (1724).
Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
Dédale (1724).
Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
La belle Hollandaise (1724).
Music by Thomas-Louis Bourgeois. Text published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées. Score published in Paris by Boivin circa 1740.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
c. 1740 (Paris; score);
1758 (Paris).
Melpomène (1724).
Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
Le déclin (1758).
Published in Paris by Les libraires associés in 1758, in Œuvres, vol. 5.
French: 1758 (Paris).
POEMS and EPISTLES
Les Philippiques.
1. Vous dont l’éloquence rapide... (1719).
Written in 1717–1719.
2. Je vais entrer dans la carrière... (1719).
Written in 1717–1719.
3. Coupable reine d’Amathonte... (1719).
Written in 1717–1719.
4. Toi qui contre la Macédoine... (1885).
Written in 1720. Published in 1885.
5. Quelles vastes métamorphoses... (1722).
Written in 1722.
6. Enfin, la mort de Capanée... (1723).
Written in 1723.
French: manuscript (1–3);
manuscript (1–3);
manuscript (copy by Montesquieu; 1–3);
manuscript (1–3);
manuscript (1–3, 5–6; the first seven stanzas of 5 are missing);
1719 (first edition; lost);
1723 (second edition, Netherlands; 1–3);
c. 1724 (third edition; 1–3, 6);
1781 (in the numerous editions of Vie privée de Louis XV, vol. 1, London; 1–3, 6, 5);
1783 (in Historische Miscellaneen, vol. 1, Halle; 1–3, 5–6; with extended notes);
1791 (in Œuvres complètes de Louis de Saint-Simon, vol. 7, Strasbourg; 1–3, 6, 5);
1795 (Paris; 1–3, 5–6);
1797 (Bordeaux; 1–3, 5–6; ed. François-Victor Chancel de La Grange);
1831 (Paris; 1–3, 5–6; ed. Bast);
1858 (Paris; 1–3, 5–6; ed. Lescure);
1875 (Paris; 1–3, 5–6; ed. Labessade);
1878 (Périgueux; 1–3, 5–6; ed. Dujarric-Descombes);
1885 (Paris; 4);
1886 (Paris, Reims; 4; ed. Diancourt);
2011 (Antibes).
Ode sur Anacréon, imitée d’un ancien poète grec (1724).
Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
Imitation (1724).
Imitation in French of a poem in Italian by Lorenzo Verzuso, marquis of Beretti-Landi. Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
Épître au roi de Sardaigne: Dans une île barbare... (1724).
Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
Ode à monseigneur le duc d’Orléans, régent (1724).
Written in 1721. Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
Sonnet (1724).
Written in 1692. Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague).
Élégie sur la mort du jeune chevalier de La Grange (1724).
Written in 1721. Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
Épître à monsieur de La Fosse, sur sa tragédie de Callirhoé, qui ne fut pas favorablement reçue du public (1724).
Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
Épître à monsieur Arouet de Voltaire, sur sa tragédie d’Œdipe, et sur les deux dissertations qui la suivent (1724).
Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
Épître à monsieur Houdar de La Motte, de l’Académie française, sur sa tragédie d’Inès, et sur la nouvelle poétique qu’il promet dans sa préface (1724).
Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
Lettre à monsieur le baron de Walef, lieutenant-général des armées de Sa Majesté catholique, sur le même sujet (1724).
In prose, about Antoine Houdar de La Motte’s tragedy Inès de Castro, first performed in 1723. Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague);
1758 (Paris).
Lettre à madame la duchesse de *** (1724).
In prose. Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724, in Œuvres mêlées.
French: 1724 (The Hague).
Épître au roi, sur la bataille de Fontenoy (c. 1745).
Published in Bordeaux by Raymond Labottière circa 1745.
French: c. 1745 (Bordeaux);
1758 (Paris).
REQUESTS
Ode à monsieur Boucquier : Toi, qui du fameux Cicéron...
Published in Bordeaux by André Brossier in 1806, in Essais, variétés historiques et notices sur la ville de Libourne et ses environs, vol. 4.
French: 1806 (Bordeaux);
1858 (Paris);
1878 (Paris).
À nosseigneurs du parlement de Guyenne : Vous, chez qui la nature...
Published in Bordeaux by André Brossier in 1806, in Essais, variétés historiques et notices sur la ville de Libourne et ses environs, vol. 4.
French: 1806 (Bordeaux);
1858 (Paris);
1878 (Paris).
Élégie : Muses, qui dans ces murs que baigne la Garonne...
Published in Paris by Édouard Rouveyre in 1878, in Poésies inédites.
French: 1878 (Paris).
Apparition de Thémis : Accablé des horreurs...
Published in Paris by Édouard Rouveyre in 1878, in Poésies inédites.
French: 1878 (Paris).
À nosseigneurs du parlement de Guyenne : Vous, dont les arrêts équitables...
By François-Victor Chancel de La Grange. Published in Bordeaux by André Brossier in 1806, in Essais, variétés historiques et notices sur la ville de Libourne et ses environs, vol. 4.
French: 1806 (Bordeaux);
1858 (Paris);
1878 (Paris).
COLLECTIONS
Œuvres (1699).
Published in Paris by Pierre Ribou in 1699.
Contains: Méléagre. — Oreste et Pylade. — Adherbal.
French: 1699 (Paris).
Recueil des tragédies (1701).
Published in Paris by Pierre Ribou in 1701.
Contains: Adherbal. — Oreste et Pylade. — Méléagre. — Athénaïs. — Amasis.
French: 1701 (Paris).
Théâtre (1703).
Published in Amsterdam by Jacques Desbordes in 1703.
Contains: Adherbal. — Oreste et Pylade. — Méléagre. — Athénaïs. — Amasis.
French: 1703 (Amsterdam).
Œuvres mêlées (1724).
Published in The Hague by Charles Le Vier in 1724.
Contains: Ode sur Anacréon. — Cantates anacréontiques (15 cantatas). — Cantates imitées de Bion et de Théocrite (4 cantatas). — Cantates diverses (5 cantatas). — Pièces diverses.
French: 1724 (The Hague).
Œuvres (1734–1735).
Published in Paris by (the widow of) Pierre Ribou in 1734 (vol. 1) and 1735 (vol. 2 and 3). Copies of vol. 1 exist with the year 1735.
Vol. 1: Jugurtha (Adherbal). — Oreste et Pylade. — Méléagre. — Athénaïs. — Vol. 2: Amasis. — Alceste. — Ino et Mélicerte. — Érigone. — Cassius et Victorinus. — Vol. 3, part 1: Les jeux olympiques. — Médus. — Cassandre. — Orphée. — Vol. 3, part 2: Poésies. — La forêt embrasée. — Épîtres. — Cantates.
French: 1735, vol. 2 (Paris; the volume number on the title page of this copy was partially scratched).
Œuvres (1742).
Published in Paris by the Compagnie des libraires associés in 1742.
Vol. 1: Jugurtha. — Oreste et Pylade. — Méléagre. — Athénaïs. — Vol. 2: Amasis. — Alceste. — Ino et Mélicerte. — Érigone. — Cassius et Victorinus. — Vol. 3: probably the same as in the 1734–1735 edition.
French: 1742, vol. 1,
vol. 2 and vol. 3 (Paris).
Théâtre (1746).
Published in Amsterdam by François L’Honoré in 1746.
Vol. 1: Jugurtha. — Oreste et Pylade. — Méléagre. — Athénaïs. — Amasis. — Alceste. — Vol. 2: Ino et Mélicerte. — Érigone. — Cassius et Victorinus. — Les jeux olympiques. — Médus. — Cassandre. — Orphée.
French: 1746, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (Amsterdam).
Œuvres (1758).
Published in Paris by Les libraires associés in 1758.
Vol. 1: Jugurtha. — Oreste et Pylade. — Méléagre. — Vol. 2: Athénaïs. — Amasis. — Alceste. — Ino et Mélicerte. — Vol. 3: Érigone. — Médus. — Cassius et Victorinus. — Les jeux olympiques. — Vol. 4: Cassandre. — Orphée. — Pyrame et Thisbé. — La mort d’Ulysse. — Le crime puni. — La forêt embrasée. — Prologue d’Ériphile. — Prologue aux bourgmestres d’Amsterdam. — Vol. 5: Cantates. — Œuvres diverses.
French: 1758, vol. 1,
vol. 2,
vol. 3,
vol. 4 and
vol. 5 (Paris).
Poésies inédites (1878)
French: 1878 (Paris).
Created on 5 October 2023. Updated on 8 November 2023.
