François Bigot [SEP] place of death
François Bigot
François Bigot (; born Bordeaux, 30 January 1703; died Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 12 January 1778) was a French government official. He served as the Financial Commissary on Île Royale (nowadays Cape Breton Island). commissary general of the ill-fated Duc d'Anville expedition and finally as the "Intendant" of New France. He was the last official ever to hold the latter position, losing it on the occasion of the conquest of 1760. He was subsequently accused of corruption and put on trial in France
Casting of The Opera L'Intendant Bigot.
J.-U. Voyer and Alfred Rousseau's libretto, stages great names in history such as François Bigot, the last governor of New France and his mistress Madam Péan, Angélique Renaud d'Avène des Méloïses (nicknamed The Pompadour of Quebec, wife of Michel Jean Hugues Péan, the governor's right-hand man as well as the Marquis Gaston of St-Germain.
The scene takes place in Quebec in 1758.
Several fictitious characters provide dramatic historic and symbolic aspects to the opera. In