Antoine Le Bailly

Antoine-François Le Bailly (or Lebailly), (1 April 1756, Caen – 13 January 1832, Paris) was a French librettist and fabulist.
Antoine Le Bailly authored some operas, but is mostly known for his fables.
A first collection was published under the title "Fables nouvelles, suivies de poésies fugitives" (Paris, 1784, in-12 ; a second one under that of "Fables nouvelles" ("Ibid.", 1814, in-12). In a third edition (1823, in-8°), Le Bailly replaced the verse of the epilogue in praise of Napoléon by verse in honor of the Bourbons.
He also composed "Corisandre", comédie-opéra (Paris, 1792, in-4°) ; "Diane et Endymion", opera ("Ibid.", 1814, in-12) ; "le Procès d’Ésope avec les animaux", one-act comedy, in verse and in prose (Paris, 1812, in-12) ; "le Gouvernement des animaux", poème ésopéen ("Ibid.", 1816, in-8°) ; "Arion, ou le pouvoir de la musique" ("Ibid. ", 1817, in-8°) ; "la Chute des Titans, ou le retour d’Astrée", cantata to mark the coronation of Charles X ("Ibid.", 1825, in-8°), etc.