Rameau, Jean Philippe, French composer, born at Dijon; wrote on harmony, and, settling in Paris, composed operas, his first “Hippolyte et Aricie,” and his best “Castor et Pollux” (1683‒1764).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Rambouillet, Marquise de * Rameses