Comments on: The HARVARD CLUB welcomes Gabriel Banat http://www.chevalierdesaintgeorge.com/news/2007/10/03/the-harvard-club-welcomes-gabriel-banat/ Joseph Boulogne (1745-1799) CHEVALIER de SAINT-GEORGE, Artist, Lover, Warrior Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:28:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Chevalierdesaintgeorge http://www.chevalierdesaintgeorge.com/news/2007/10/03/the-harvard-club-welcomes-gabriel-banat/#comment-180 Chevalierdesaintgeorge Tue, 26 Oct 2010 03:23:56 +0000 http://www.chevalierdesaintgeorge.com/news/2007/10/03/the-harvard-club-welcomes-gabriel-banat/#comment-180 <strong>Chevalierdesaintgeorge...</strong> [...] something about chevalierdesaintgeorge[...]... Chevalierdesaintgeorge…

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]]> By: Russell http://www.chevalierdesaintgeorge.com/news/2007/10/03/the-harvard-club-welcomes-gabriel-banat/#comment-171 Russell Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:14:23 +0000 http://www.chevalierdesaintgeorge.com/news/2007/10/03/the-harvard-club-welcomes-gabriel-banat/#comment-171 <p>GABRIEL BANAT ON THE CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGES: THE VIOLIN AND THE SWORD</p> <p>A black French aristocrat, the greatest swordsman of his day, a celebrated violinist and composer, friend of Haydn, hero of the French Revolution, prisoner of the French Revolution – it sounds like fiction, but every word is true. The Chevalier de Saint-Georges was born in 1745 in the West Indies to a French planter and his young, African slave and mistress. At age 7, he was taken by his father to France. Louis XV made him a member of the royal bodyguard and a chevalier. An active abolitionist, and conductor of the best orchestra in France, he wrote symphonies, quartets, and concertos.</p> GABRIEL BANAT ON THE CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGES: THE VIOLIN AND THE SWORD

A black French aristocrat, the greatest swordsman of his day, a celebrated violinist and composer, friend of Haydn, hero of the French Revolution, prisoner of the French Revolution – it sounds like fiction, but every word is true. The Chevalier de Saint-Georges was born in 1745 in the West Indies to a French planter and his young, African slave and mistress. At age 7, he was taken by his father to France. Louis XV made him a member of the royal bodyguard and a chevalier. An active abolitionist, and conductor of the best orchestra in France, he wrote symphonies, quartets, and concertos.

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