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Thread #105098   Message #2198041
Posted By: pavane
20-Nov-07 - 02:27 AM
Thread Name: Songs illegal to sing in Ireland
Subject: RE: Songs illegal to sing in Ireland
Rapaire
Thanks for the link to the Index Librorum Prohibitorum
You might (or might not) be interested to know that there is an ancestor of mine listed there. Samuel Chap(p)uzeau's book L'Europe Vivante, of which I have a copy, was banned in 1764.

Samuel Chappuzeau was my (10 x great)-grandfather. We don't actually know why the book was banned, but Samuel was a Calvinist.

The only musical link here is that as well as several plays, he wrote a Libretto in 1689. You can find him (and a link to a scan of the Libretto) in Wikipedia. Unfortunately, we only have the words, not the music.