{"id":3559,"date":"2009-12-02T02:16:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T02:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2017-05-05T16:09:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T16:09:55","slug":"the-chevalier-de-saint-georges-virtuoso-of-the-sword-and-the-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3559","title":{"rendered":"The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Pendragon Press<\/a>
\nMarch 2006
\n566 pages
\nISBN: 9781576471098<\/p>\n

Gabriel Banat<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Chevalier de Saint-Georges<\/a>, born Joseph Bologne, was the son of an African slave and a French plantation owner on the island of Guadeloupe. The story of his improbable rise in French society, his life as a famous fencer, celebrated violinist-composer and conductor, and later commander of a colored regiment in the French Revolution, should, on the facts alone, gladden the heart of the most passionate romance novelist.<\/strong> Yet, the information disseminated about this illustre inconnu is found in an extravagant nineteenth-century novel, which contains more fiction than fact. Unfortunately, many of the author\u2019s flights of fancy have found their way into serious works about Saint-Georges. Gabriel Banat has set about systematically dispelling the confusion, for the real story is easily as fascinating as any flight of fancy. Gabriel Banat has been a professional violinist all his life; recitalist and member of the New York Philharmonic, he has systematically scoured the violin repertory for interesting and even unknown music. He came across the works of St. Georges and was fascinated by the freshness and charm of these 18th-century compositions. Eventually, he edited a critical edition of all the violin music and, inevitably, began a systematic investigation into the life of this intriguing and multifaceted individual, utilizing archives of the French Land Army, official clippings and untapped personal diaries of St. Georges\u2019 contemporaries. Banat is the author of an authoritative monograph on St. Georges in the Black Music Research Journal.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Banat has been a professional violinist all his life: recitalist and member of the New York Philharmonic, he has systematically scoured the violin repertory for interesting and even unknown music. He is the author of an authoritative monograph on St. Georges in the Black Music Research Journal.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n

List of Illustrations ix
\nAcknowledgments xii
\nPreface xiv
\nNecrology xviii
\nChapter 1 The Island 1
\nChapter 2 Joseph 5
\nChapter 3 The Trial 12
\nChapter 4 A Fugitive Family 22
\nChapter 5 The Bologne Plantation 27
\nChapter 6 People \u00bfof Color\u00bf 37
\nChapter 7 Return to France 40
\nChapter 8 Paris 46
\nChapter 9 The Prodigy 54
\nChapter 10 Too Many Blacks 67
\nChapter 11 The Chevalier de Saint-Georges 76
\nChapter 12 A Young Man About Town 90
\nChapter 13 Virtuoso 97
\nChapter 14 Gossec 113
\nChapter 15 The New Bow 119
\nChapter 16 Composions- Quartets and Concertos 125
\nChapter 17 Gluck and Marie Antoinette 140
\nChapter 18 Concertos andSymphonie Concertantes 159
\nChapter 19 TheOp\u00e9ra Affair 177
\nChapter 20 Ernestine 193
\nChapter 21 Mme. de Montesson
\nChapter 22 Mme. de Montalembert
\nChapter 23 L\u00bfAmant Anonyme
\nChapter 24 Le Concert des Amateurs
\nChapter 25 The Grand Orient of France
\nChapter 26 Le Concert Olympique
\nChapter 27 Le Palais-Royal
\nChapter 28 London
\nChapter 29 The Gathering Storm
\nChapter 30 The Bastille
\nChapter 31 Revolution
\nChapter 32 An Orl\u00e9ans Conspiracy?
\nChapter 33 Return to London
\nChapter 34 Lille
\nChapter 35 The National Guard
\nChapter 36 La L\u00e9gion Saint-Georges
\nChapter 37 Regicide
\nChapter 38 The Great Terror
\nChapter 39 Too Many Colonels
\nChapter 40 Paris 1795
\nChapter 41 Saint Domingue
\nChapter 42 Coda-Finale
\nEpilogue
\nEpitaphs for those who survived Saint-Georges 456
\nAppendix: Dramatis Personae
\nWorks List
\nDiscography
\nList of Documents
\nBibliography
\nIndex<\/p>\n

List of Illustrations<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fig. 1.1 Map of Guadeloupe xix
\nFig. 2.1 View of Basse-Terre, ca. 1750 7
\nFig. 2.2 \u00bfSquares\u00bf of sugar cane, Bailiff 9
\nFig. 5.1 Plantation with view on La Suffri\u00e8re 30
\nFig. 7.1 Custom Records of Passengers arriving in Bordeaux, Aug. 2, 1753 41
\nFig. 7.2 Port of Bordeaux, 1753 42
\nFig. 8.1 Mme. de Pompadour 49
\nFig. 8.2 49 rue St. Andr\u00e9 des Arts today 52
\nFig. 10.1 The Saint-Georges Guard 70
\nFig. 11.1 Equestrian statue of Louis XV 79
\nFig. 11.2 Chamber music at a musical salon 88
\nFig. 12.1 \u00bfWinter\u00bf from Les quatre saisons 94
\nFig. 12.2 The Italian style of fencing 95
\nFig. 13.1 One of Les vingt-quatre violons du Roi 99
\nFig. 13.2 Leopold Mozart and his two children 107
\nFig. 13.3 English Tea in the Salon of the Four Mirrors 108
\nFig. 13.4 Portrait of Saint-Georges at 22 111
\nFig. 14.1 Fran\u00e7ois Joseph Gossec 114
\nFig. 14.2 L\u00bfH\u00f4tel de Soubise 115
\nFig. 15.1 Leopold Mozart, 1756 121
\nFig. 15.2 The evolution of the bow 122
\nFig. 16.1 Title page of Saint-Georges\u00bf second set of quartets 130
\nFig. 17.1 Maria Antoinette at her spinet in Vienna 145
\nFig. 17.2 Christoph Willibald Gluck 147
\nFig. 17.3 Marie Antoinette in 1777, Versailles 151
\nFig. 18.1 George Polgreen Bridgetower 168
\nFig. 19.1 La petit loge at the Op\u00e9ra in the Palais-Royal 179
\nFig. 19.2 Mlle.La Guimard in Le Navigateur 185
\nFig. 19.3 Papillon de la Fert\u00e9 189
\nFig. 20.1 Choderlos de Laclos 195
\nFig. 20.2 Th\u00e9atre Italien in 1777 198
\nFig. 21.1 Mme. de Genlis 206
\nFig. 21.2 Mme. de Montesson 208
\nFig. 21.3 The Duke of Orl\u00e9ans and his son 210
\nFig. 23.1 Title page of L\u00bfAmant Anonyme 238
\nFig. 24.1 Title page of the D\u00bfOgny catalogue 246
\nFig. 24.2 Saint-Georges\u00bf quartets listed in the D\u00bfOgny catalogue 247
\nFig. 25.1 Philippe, Duke of Chartres with his family 253
\nFig. 26.1 Masonic initiation ceremony 260
\nFig. 26.2 The Palais-Royal before its reconstruction 262
\nFig. 27.1 \u00bfPrinny,\u00bf George, Prince of Wales 277
\nFig. 27.2 Philippe, Duke of Orl\u00e9ans 278
\nFig. 28.1 Henry Angelo 284
\nFig. 28.2 Le Chevalier D\u00bf\u00c9on in his uniform 288
\nFig. 28.3 Mlle. La Chevali\u00e8re D\u00bf\u00c9on in 1783 288
\nFig. 28.4 Cartoon of St. George and D\u00bf\u00c9on 293
\nFig. 28.5 Fencing match at Carlton House 297
\nFig. 29.1 Burning of the Opera House, 1781 307
\nFig. 29.2 Palais-Royal after reconstruction 308
\nFig. 30.1 Mme. de Genlis as \u00bfGovernor\u00bf of Philippe\u00bfs children 315
\nFig. 30.2 Giovanni Baptista Viotti 317
\nFig. 30.3 Louis XVI inaugerating the opening session of the Estates-General 320
\nFig. 30.4 Desmoulins haranguing the people 324
\nFig. 30.5 Fall of the Bastille
\nFig. 31.1 Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott 327
\nFig. 32.1 March of the Paris Poissardes, 1789 334
\nFig. 32.2 Cartoon of Lafayette kicking Philippe 340
\nFig. 33.1 Mr. Angelo\u00bfs Fencing Academy 342
\nFig. 34.1 Session at the Jacobin Club, Paris, 1792 363
\nFig. 35.1 General Dillon\u00bfs body being burned in Lille 368
\nFig. 36.1 Hussar of the L\u00e9gion St. Georges 374
\nFig. 36.2 The battle of Jemappes, 1792 378
\nFig. 36.3 Trooper of the 13th regiment of the Chasseurs \u00e0 cheval, 1793 383
\nFig. 37.1 Execution of Louis XVI, 1793 386
\nFig. 37.2 Bust of General Dumouriez 388
\nFig. 37.3 Arrest of the Commissioners and the Minister of War by Dumourez 397
\nFig. 38.1 General Thomas Alexandre Dumas 403
\nFig. 38.2 Danton on his way to the guillotine 409
\nFig. 38.3 The Feast of the Supreme Being 410
\nFig. 38.4 \u00bfThe Last Tumbrel\u00bf 411
\nFig. 40.1 Invasion of the Assembly by the Sans-Culottes 428
\nFig. 40.2 Post-Thermadorian manners, 1795 432
\nFig. 40.3 Theresa Tallien \u00bfOur Lady of Thermador\u00bf
\nFig. 41.1 Toussaint Louverture, c.1800 444
\nFig. 41.2 Map of Saint-Domingue 445<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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