Gabrielle d'Estrées (opera)

Gabrielle d’Estrées, ou Les amours d'Henri IV de France (Gabrielle d’Estrées, or The Loves of Henri IV of France) is an opera in three acts by the French composer Étienne Méhul.

[1] The plot concerns the love affair of King Henri IV with Gabrielle d'Estrées.

However, the musicologist Elizabeth Bartlet believes it was suspended for political reasons.

[2][1] In 1805, Napoleon – then ruler of France – had written to his chief of police Joseph Fouché that he did not want to see Henri IV on stage because the king was too close in time "not to arouse passions.

"[3] Méhul's nephew Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul planned a revival in 1818 but it never took place.