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Information: French composer Michel de La Guerre (c. 1605-1679) has some claim to composing that nation's first opera, Le triomphe de l'Amour sur des bergers et bergères.
La Guerre, Michel de Sites:
Michel de La Guerre Michel de La Guerre: Brief biography from the Here of a Sunday Morning radio program. (La Guerre, Michel de) http://www.hoasm.org/VIIB/LaGuerre.html
La Guerre, Michel de La Guerre, Michel de: Biography showing possible claim as composer of earliest French opera. From the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio. (La Guerre, Michel de) http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa/cla/learning/grove.html?record=5134
Michel de la Guerre Michel de la Guerre: Biographical sketch at OperaGlass at Stanford University. (La Guerre, Michel de) http://opera.stanford.edu/LaGuerre/main.html