Cléon Galoppe d'Onquaire


Pierre Jean Hyacinthe Adonis Galoppe d'Onquaire was a French writer and playwright.

Career

He was born in Montdidier, the son of Louis-Joseph Hyacinthe Galoppe-Donquaire, a merchant draper. After a brief spell as a military officer, he became a writer, under the nickname his father had given him of "Cléon" Galoppe d'Onquaire. He also wrote poetry and articles in Mémoires de l'Académie de la Somme. He died in Le Vésinet.
Among his operetta librettos, Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin's setting of La Laitière de Trianon, a salon opera in 1 act, is the best remembered, along with one song, "Ça fait peur aux oiseaux" from the operetta Bredouille, set to music by Paul Bernard.

Works

Poetry, as Cléon Galoppe d'Onquaire, or "Pétrus Noël"