Jean-Baptiste Blache

A student of Deshayes, he learned the violin and cello and had what was in essence a provincial career, mainly at Bordeaux, where he succeeded Jean Dauberval.

He retired to Toulouse and declined an offer from that theatre that he become its ballet master.

Frédéric-Auguste also wrote Polichinelle vampire, interpreted by Charles-François Mazurier (1823) and Jocko ou le Singe du Brésil (1825).

Jean-Baptiste's younger son, Alexis-Scipion (1792-1852), was a ballet master at Lyon, Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux and St-Petersburg.

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