Destouches
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The name Destouches may refer to:
- André Cardinal DestouchesAndré Cardinal DestouchesAndré Cardinal Destouches was a French composer best known for the opéra-ballet Les élémens....
, French composer of Les élémens - Franz Seraph von DestouchesFranz Seraph von DestouchesFranz Seraph von Destouches was a German composer. Taught by Joseph Haydn, Destouches wrote incidental music to some plays by Friedrich Schiller. He also wrote a piano concerto, a clarinet concerto, operas, masses, marches, etc....
, German composer - Louis-Camus DestouchesLouis-Camus DestouchesLouis-Camus Destouches was a French artillery officer.He was a chevalier of the ordre de Saint-Lazare from 1690, and became a chevalier of the ordre de Saint-Louis in 1720, then commandeur in 1725...
, artillery officer and father of Jean le Rond d'Alembert - Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, better known as Louis-Ferdinand CélineLouis-Ferdinand CélineLouis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French writer and physician Louis-Ferdinand Destouches . Céline was chosen after his grandmother's first name. He is considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, developing a new style of writing that modernized both French and...
- Philippe Néricault DestouchesPhilippe Néricault DestouchesPhilippe Néricault Destouches was a French dramatist.-Biography:Destouches was born at Tours, in the today's department of Indre-et-Loire....
, French dramatist