Innocent Boutry

Innocent Boutry was a French chapel master, active in several towns between 1657 and 1680 and notably in Le Mans.

[6] He returned to Le Mans around Christmas 1664, where he succeeded Jean Colin as chapel master of the Saint-Julien cathedral.

[2] In 1666, Boutry competed at the puy de musique d’Évreux [fr] and received the silver harp and the second prize for the motet.

One month after his engagement, he got a chapter credit to buy a dozen music masses from Robert III Ballard.

[17] In the summer of 1672, he was granted a two-week leave of absence to go to Paris to go to his business - we don't know which - in the company of his colleague Pierre Ribière.

At the end of October 1676, he was named canon of Pruillé l'Eguillé, a small village in the south-east of Le Mans.