# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nicolas-francois-guillard
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:08:44.019Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nicolas-francois-guillard"
name: "Nicolas-François Guillard"
slug: "nicolas-francois-guillard"
description: "Nicolas-François Guillard was a French librettist. He was born in Chartres and died in Paris, the recipient of a government pension in recognition of his work writing librettos. He was also on Comité de Lecture of the Paris Opéra. One of the foremost of the French librettist of his generation, he wrote libretti for many noted composers of the day, including Salieri and in particular Sacchini. His most famous work is Iphigénie en Tauride, his first libretto, set by Gluck after the composer had initially rejected it. Gluck collaborated with Guillard to heavily recast the libretto, not only to suit Gluck's artistic preferences, but also to accommodate pre-existing music that Gluck borrowed, both from himself and from other composers, when composing the opera."
tagline: "French writer (1752–1814)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nicolas-Fran%C3%A7ois_Guillard.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1752-01-16"
deathDate: "1814-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.669870666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas-Fran%C3%A7ois_Guillard"
    title: "Nicolas-François Guillard"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Fran%C3%A7ois_Guillard"
    title: "Nicolas François Guillard"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas-Fran%C3%A7ois_Guillard"
    title: "Nicolas-François Guillard"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f088f8de-eec2-4174-99cb-1048492d3006"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas-Fran%C3%A7ois_Guillard"
    title: "Nicolas-François Guillard"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas-Fran%C3%A7ois_Guillard"
    title: "Nicolas-François Guillard"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3339962"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump