Lecocq, ALEXANDRE CHARLES, composer of comic operas, was born at Paris, 3d June 1832, and trained at the Conservatoire. From his first successful opera, Le Docteur Miracle (1857), he shows Offenbach's influence and tendency. His best-known works are La Fille de Madame Angot (1872), Giroflé-Girofla (1874), Le Petit Duc (1877).
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 553
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