a French music theorist, critic and lyric writer associated with opera, especially opéra comique. He wrote and adapted librettos. His work became more adademic and abstract and he eventually became surintendant de la musique for the Comte d'Artois, (who would become Charles X of France). In addition to works relating to music, Framery still gave in his youth more purely literary productions such novels , memoirs, stories and translations such as Response to Zeila Valcour, the three nations, the Present, the Past and the Future, Memoirs the Marquis of Forlaix translated to English, the Roland Furious and Jerusalem delivered translated from Italian.
