{"id":15175,"date":"2011-07-28T00:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15175"},"modified":"2017-04-14T00:50:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T00:50:45","slug":"monsieur-de-saint-george-the-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15175","title":{"rendered":"Monsieur de Saint-George &#8220;The American&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/monsieurdesaintgeorge\" target=\"_blank\">Monsieur de Saint-George &#8220;The American&#8221;<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Picador (an imprint of <a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\" target=\"_blank\">Macmillan<\/a>)<br \/>\nFebruary 2005<br \/>\n352 pages<br \/>\n5 1\/2 x 8 1\/4 inches<br \/>\nISBN: 978-0-312-31028-8, ISBN10: 0-312-31028-5<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alain Gu\u00e9d\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Translated by <strong>Gilda M. Roberts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/monsieurdesaintgeorge\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jacketupload.macmillanusa.com\/jackets\/high_res\/jpgs\/9780312310288.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His life is the stuff of legend: born in 1739 of a slave mother and a French noble father, he became the finest swordsman of his age, an insider at the court of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louis_XIV_of_France\" target=\"_blank\">The Sun King<\/a>, and, most of all, an accomplished musician who came to be known as the \u201cBlack Mozart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His name is Joseph Bologne, though he was better known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chevalier_de_Saint-George\" target=\"_blank\">Monsieur de Saint-George<\/a>, and, because of his origins, \u201cthe American.\u201d Alain Gu\u00e9d\u00e9 recreates the story of this memorable individual, whose musical compositions are at long last being rediscovered and whose story will never again be forgotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His life is the stuff of legend: born in 1739 of a slave mother and a French noble father, he became the finest swordsman of his age, an insider at the court of The Sun King, and, most of all, an accomplished musician who came to be known as the \u201cBlack Mozart.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1245,11,8,17],"tags":[7015,1389,7017,1390,514,7016,1392],"class_list":["post-15175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-biography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-alain-guede","tag-chevalier-de-saint-georges","tag-gilda-m-roberts","tag-joseph-bologne","tag-macmillan","tag-monsieur-de-saint-george","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53504,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15175\/revisions\/53504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}