Valentine de Milan

His nephew Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul finished the opera, adding five numbers, and it premiered at the Opéra-Comique, Paris on 28 November 1822, five years after Méhul's death.

[1] At the end of the performance, a bust of Méhul was brought on stage and crowned with flowers and laurel wreaths to the acclamation of the audience.

The subject is the love of Valentina Visconti, daughter of Duke Gian Galeazzo of Milan, and Louis of Orléans, younger brother of King Charles VI of France.

Clisson, Constable of France, blames Gian Galeazzo for the assassination attempt and war almost breaks out again.

Gian Galeazzo appears in Louis' tent and offers to hand over his sword in response to his accusers.