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unusual facts about Christophe Le Menu de Saint-Philbert


Christophe Le Menu de Saint-Philbert

Christophe Le Menu de Saint-Philbert (c.1720- Paris 1774) was a French music publisher who also composed some short cantatas in the rococo style known as cantatilles.


Antonio de Oquendo

After a while Prince Philbert arranged his release; De Oquendo was then given command for a few years of the yearly Spanish treasure fleet, transporting the silver from the Andes to Spain.

Marguerite Leféron

One example was that of Madame Philbert, who in 1673 murdered her carpenter husband Brunet by poison of Marie Bosse in order to marry her lover, Philippe Rebille Philbert: her crime was identical to that of Leferon, but she was sentenced to hang after having her right hand cut of.


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