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Carte Reduite du Globe Terrestre

Hand-drawn map of the world, circa 1763. The place names are in French with some cities noted as well as geographic features (with relief shown pictorially).
Date: 1763~
Creator: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tom Jones; comedie lyrique en trois actes

Philidor’s Tom Jones is representative of the continental interest in English literature. Henry Fielding’s homonymous novel served as the foundation for Philidor’s opera, but Philidor pared down the story quite a bit, especially downplaying Tom’s philandering ways. Many secondary characters and situations were also cut, a common technique that librettists employ when adapting prose writings to the stage. Thus, a central plot unfolds in a manner that the audience can follow, and the length remains manageable for an evening’s entertainment.
Date: 1766
Creator: Philidor, F. D. (François Danican), 1726-1795; Poinsinet, Antoine Alexandre Henri, 1735-1769; Davesne, Bertin, 1714-1742 & Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754
Object Type: Musical Score/Notation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Le Huron : comedie en deux actes, et en vers

Grétry’s Le Huron takes as its source a short story called L’ingénu (Geneva, 1767), written by Voltaire under the name Dulaurens. The story was banned two months after its publication due to anti-government themes. For instance, the young man raised by the Hurons (the title character of the opera) was imprisoned for expressing his radical ideas about issues such as the treatment of the Huguenots. Voltaire’s character is derived from another source, the novel Bélisaire by Marmontel, in which a man is framed for a crime and awaiting the death penalty before being released. Marmontel, who corresponded regularly with Voltaire, created the libretto for Grétry’s opera. However, most controversial aspects of the story were eliminated or downplayed for the censors, and as a result, the anti-religious message is absent from Le Huron.
Date: 1768
Creator: Gretry, André Ernest Modeste, 1741-1813 & Marmontel, Jean François, 1723-1799
Object Type: Musical Score/Notation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Carte de l'Amerique et des Mers voisines

This map shows the western hemisphere including North and South America and western portions of Europe and Africa. Some countries are labeled and bodies of water and geographic features are also marked (with relief shown pictorially). Prime Meridian: Paris.
Date: 1763
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Le tableau parlant: comédie parade en un acte et en vers: Œuvre III: dédé à Monseigneur Le Duc de Choiseul

Score for André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry's Le tableau parlant.
Date: 1769~
Creator: Grétry, André-Ernest-Modeste, 1741-1813
Object Type: Musical Score/Notation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Mappe monde qui comprend les nouvelles découvertes faites jusqu'a ce jour.

Map shows the routes of Bering's lieutenants Alexei Chirikou in 1741, and Martin Spanbery in 1728, through the Bering Straight, and the route of the l'Aigle and the La Marie in 1739. Includes illustrations of indigenous peoples. Map is possibly from: Crepy's Atlas Nouveau [1767-1773]. Scale [ca. 1:100 000 000].
Date: 1767
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mappe-monde sur un plan horizontal situé à 45 d. de latitude sud hemisphère occidental.

Map shows South America, part or North America, part of Australia as "Nouvelle Hollande," New Zealand, and islands of the Pacific Ocean, an uncharted Antarctic Pole, and major cities. Insets: "Sphère oblique" and "Pour la latitude." Scale varies.
Date: [1768..1788]
Creator: André, Gaspard, fl. 1768-1801
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Le nouveau Méxique avec la partie septentrionale de l'ancien, ou, de la Nouvelle Espacne [i.e. Espagne].

Map shows geography and major cities located in mid-eighteenth century New Spain [Mexico]. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not indicated.
Date: 1760?/1769?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Carte geo-hydrographique du Golfe du Mexique et de ses isles.

Map shows the geography and coastal cities along the mid-seventeenth century Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean regions of the Western Hemisphere. Depths shown by soundings. Scale [ca. 1:10,000,000].
Date: 1762
Creator: Rizzi-Zannoni, Giovanni Antonio, 1736-1814
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Carte reduite des costes de la Louisiane et de la Floride.

Map shows coastline of French Louisiana along the Gulf of Mexico west of the Trinity River from a point labeled "Baye St. Louis ou de St. Bernard," and to the east to include the Florida peninsula and Atlantic coast of Florida [as Islands] ; part of the Bahamas and Cuba; islands and sailing routes through the Mississippi River delta on inset. Relief shown pictorially and depths shown by soundings. Inset: Carte des embouchures du fleuve St. Louis [Map of the mouth of Mississippi River]. Scale [ca. 1:2,500,000].
Date: 1764
Creator: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Carte d'Amérique dressée pour l'usage du roy en 1722.

Map shows major settlements, areas of Indian habitation, physical features, and political divisions for North and South America, including French Louisiana and New Spain; Mediterranean Sea, southern tip of Great Britain and Ireland, and western coast of Europe and Africa; large "Mer de l'Ouest [western sea] shown north of California. Includes notes and discovery dates, title courtouche and "Advertissement." Inset: [Map of] "Mer Glaciale et Terres Arctiques." Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1763
Creator: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Carte de l'Amerique et des mers voisines.

Map shows basic geography, major settlements, and territorial place names in North America, South America, West Indies, and parts of Greenland and Africa. Minimal detail shown in western portion of North America. Relief shown pictorially. No scale noted.
Date: 1763
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Le cadi dupé, opéra bouffon en un acte, representé sur le Théatre de l'opera comique

The figured bass is unrealized in the full score of this one-act comic opera. Sung French text is underlaid; spoken text is printed before and after each song.
Date: 1761
Creator: Monsigny, Pierre-Alexandre, 1729-1817
Object Type: Musical Score/Notation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Le déserteur; drame en trois actes representé par les Comediens italiens ordinaires du roi le 6 mars 1769, Gravé par Mlle, Vendôme et le Sr. Moria

This three-act opera is dedicated to His Most Serene Highness Monseigneur Duke of Orleans and premiered on 6 March 1769 at les Comediens italiens ordinaires du roi. This full score opens with a letter of dedication from the composer to his patron.
Date: 1769
Creator: Monsigny, Pierre-Alexandre, 1729-1817
Object Type: Musical Score/Notation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Le roy et le fermier

This three-act opera was premiered at the Comédie Italien on 22 November 1762.
Date: 1762
Creator: Monsigny, Pierre-Alexandre
Object Type: Musical Score/Notation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Le tonnelier (open access)

Le tonnelier

Libretto of the comic opera "Le tonnelier" (The cooper) by Nicolas-Médard Audinot in collaboration with Antoine-François Quétant. The music of this one-act opera is a pasticcio of works by Gossec and other contemporaneous composers. Typical of the genre, the opera contains a variety of musical forms (airs, romance, vaudeville, and recitatives) and the dialogues are interspersed with additional airs, possibly using popular tunes. This copy includes (on pp. 52 and 54-56) notated melodies of airs.
Date: 1765
Creator: Audinot, Nicolas Médard, 1732-1801. & Quétant, Antoine-François, 1733-1823.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Le cadi dupé (open access)

Le cadi dupé

This is a 1766 copy of the libretto of the one-act comic opera "Le cadi dupé" (The duped judge), by Pierre René Lemonnier to music by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny. The first performance of the opera took place at the Paris Foire St-Germain on 4 February 1761. Christoph Willibald Gluck's music replaced that of Monsigny's for the 8 December 1761 performance at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
Date: 1766
Creator: Lemonnier, Pierre René, 1731-1796
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Carte de l'isle de Sainte Lucie.

Map shows mid-eighteenth century geography and settlements on the island of Saint Lucia. Relief shown pictorially. Insets: "Plan du Port du Carenage," "Plan du Cul de Sac des Roseaux," and "Mouillages du Grand Islet et du Choc." Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:306,900].
Date: 1763
Creator: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Carte de l'Isle de Nieves.

Map shows roads, settlements, parishes, harbors, churches, fortifications, and points of anchorage. Includes notes. Relief shown by pictorially and by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Scale not given.
Date: 1764
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Isle de Curacao ou Corassol.

Map shows roads, harbors, and settlements; shows buildings, layout, and fortification of St. Anne's Bay and Fort Amsterdam. Inset: [Entrée de la Baye Se. Anne]. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Scale not given.
Date: 1764
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Carte du continent de l'Amérique nord: pour servir à l'intelligence du système des vents et des courans.

Map shows direction of wind and ocean currents. Relief shown by hachures. No scale indicated.
Date: 1763?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Suite du cours du fleuve St. Louis depuis la rivière d'Iberville jusq'à celle des Yasous, et les parties connues de la Rivière Rouge et la Rivière Noire.

Map shows the course of the Lower Mississippi River and its tributaries. Includes "Remarques sur la Rivière Rouge" [Notes on the Red River]. Inset: "Carte de l'establissement françois sur la Rivière Rouge" [Map of a French settlement on the Red River]. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:830,000].
Date: 1764
Creator: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Les deux chasseurs et la laitière; comédie en un acte

Undated score of Egidio Duni's opera Les deux chaussures et la laitière. Duni’s French style was shaped by the developments of the War of the Buffoons, which pitted French tragic opera against Italian comic opera. The newly emergent opéra comique genre, for which Duni is still considered to be one of the major contributors, combined elements of both styles. His significance in the development of opéra comique is evident in the long-term success of Les deux chasseurs et la laitière, which was performed at the Comédie-Italien until 1792, almost twenty years after the composer’s death.
Date: 1763
Creator: Duni, Egidio, 1708-1775 & Anseaume, M. (Louis), 1721-1784
Object Type: Musical Score/Notation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Les deux chasseurs et la laitière; comédie en un acte

Duni’s French style was shaped by the developments of the War of the Buffoons, which pitted French tragic opera against Italian comic opera. The newly emergent opéra comique genre, for which Duni is still considered to be one of the major contributors, combined elements of both styles. His significance in the development of opéra comique is evident in the long-term success of Les deux chasseurs et la laitière, which was performed at the Comédie-Italien until 1792, almost twenty years after the composer’s death.
Date: 1763
Creator: Duni, Egidio, 1708-1775 & Anseaume, M. (Louis), 1721-1784
Object Type: Musical Score/Notation
System: The UNT Digital Library