Marc Antoine Desaugiers (1739 - 10/09/1793), a French composer (from Fréjus).

The French composer Desaugiers worked in Paris in politically restless times. He adopted ideas of the French Revolution (sincerely or by opportunism?). He composed canta Hierodrame in memory of conqest of Fortress Bastilje and used revolutionally song "Ah ca ira" in his opera "Le Medicin malgre lui". Desaugiers was a friend pof Gluck and Sacchini. His Requiem is composed probably to the memory of Sacchini. Like many other composers at that time (like Mozart, Haydn, Gossec and Gluck) Desaugiers was a member of the freemasonry. This is unclear but the son of the composer, Marc-Antoine Madelaine, assured that his father was a freemason.
Desaugiers composed a Miserere (1777), about twenty opera's, a symphony and the Idylle sur la Naissance de Jesus Christ.