David, Félicien, a French composer, born at Vaucluse; author, among other compositions, of the “Desert,” a production which achieved an instant and complete triumph; was in his youth an ardent disciple of St. Simon (1810‒1876).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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