Nicolas Desmarets, Controller-General of Finances during the reign of Louis XIV of France
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Examples of the latter are Lully's L'Idylle sur la Paix set to a text by Racine and Desmarets' Idylle sur la naissance du duc de Bourgogne set to a text by Antoinette Deshoulières.
Samuel Des Marets or Desmarets, in Latin Maresius (Oisemont, 1599–Groningen, 18 May 1673) was a French Protestant theologian.
After several years in exile as the court composer for Philip V of Spain, Desmarets took up an appointment as master of music at the court of Leopold, Duke of Lorraine in Lunéville.
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Desmarets had dedicated Vénus et Adonis to his long-time patron Louis XIV and set the prologue on the plains of Marly-le-Roi with Louis XIV's famous leisure residence, Château de Marly in the background.