The author of Le Martyre de saint Sébastien would later become a soldier in which war?
Le Martyre de saint Sébastien Le Martyre de saint Sébastien is a five-act musical mystery play on the subject of Saint Sebastian, with a text written in 1911 by the Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio and incidental music by the French composer Claude Debussy (L.124).
Jean-Baptiste Girard (soldier) Jean-Baptiste Girard (February 21, 1775 at Aups, in Var – June 27, 1815 in Paris), was a French soldier, général and baron d'Empire, who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.