Saint-Étienne | Étienne-Jules Marey | George-Étienne Cartier | Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire | Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol | Saint-Étienne-le-Laus | Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray | Etienne Decroux | Mehul Kumar | Étienne Serres | Étienne Maurice Falconet | Étienne Gilson | Étienne François, duc de Choiseul | Saint-Étienne-du-Mont | Saint-Étienne-de-Lugdarès | Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry | Saint-Etienne | Jean-Étienne Guettard | Jean Étienne Championnet | Giovanni Baleison, ''Cycle on the life of Saint Sebastian'', fresco, detail of main altar, St. Sebastian Church, Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée | François Étienne de Kellermann | Étienne Mulsant | Étienne Marcel | Étienne-Louis Malus | Étienne Louis Geoffroy | Étienne-Louis Boullée | Étienne Lenoir | Etienne Laspeyres | Étienne-Jean Delécluze | Étienne Guibourg |
Over the course of ten years, the Favart and the Feydeau companies were rivals, the Favart beefing up its repertoire of patriotic spectacles and presenting the lighter works of Étienne Méhul, the Feydeau offering the heroic dramas of Cherubini or Jean-François Le Sueur.
The second entrée, L'histoire ("History"), tells the story of the Hellenistic king of Syria Seleucus I Nicator, who gives up his fiancée Stratonice when he learns his son Antiochus I Soter is passionately in love with her (this tale was also the subject of a later 18th century French opera, Étienne Méhul's Stratonice).
Matilde di Shabran (full title: Matilde di Shabran, ossia Bellezza e cuor di ferro; English: Matilde of Shabran, or Beauty and Heart of Iron), is a melodramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Jacopo Ferretti after François-Benoît Hoffman’s libretto for Méhul’s Euphrosine (1790, Paris) and J. M. Boutet de Monvel's play Mathilde.