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Léonce Détroyat

French journalist and librettist (b. 1829 in Bayonne; d. January 1898 in Paris), born Pierre Léonce Détroyat.

In 1888 he sent Tchaikovsky a scenario for an opera called The Courtesan (or Sadia), although eventually nothing came of this project.

Tchaikovsky's correspondence with Léonce Détroyat:

• 4 letters from the composer to Léonce Détroyat have survived, dating from 1888 to 1889.