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Simon-Joseph Pellegrin
The abbé Simon-Joseph Pellegrin 
(1663 – 5 September 1745) was a French poet and playwright, a librettist who collaborated with Jean-Philippe Rameau and other composers.
Biography.
He was born at Marseille, the son of a "conseiller" to the Siège Présidial of the city. He was at first designated for an ecclesiastical career, from which he retained the courtesy title "abbé". Though he was for a time a novitiate of the Servites at Moustiers-Sainte
the help of Simon-Joseph Pellegrin, who had been the librettist for "Hippolyte". The final three acts were completely rewritten. The revised version has a simpler plot, fewer supernatural features and a greater focus on the emotional conflicts of the main characters. It premiered at the Paris Opéra on 23 April 1744.
The 1744 version attracted little notice until it was revived again on 15 April 1760. This time audiences acclaimed it as one of Rameau's greatest works. The cast included Sophie Arnould as Iphise. The