Blondy, Michel, approximately 1675-1739

found: L'Empire de la sagesse sur les passions, ballet, qui sera dansé au College de Louis le Grand, 1715:page 8 (les danses sont de la composition de M. Blondi)

found: Bibliothèque nationale de France online authority file, viewed September 4, 2013(authorized access point: Blondy, Michel (1675-1739); other information in authority record: born 1675; died August 1739; dancer, choreographer, and teacher; member of the Académie royale de danse; started at the Académie royale de musique [i.e. Opéra de Paris] in 1691 where he was assistant to Guillaume Louis Pécourt, succeeding him for 10 years in 1729; variant form of name: Blondi, Michel)

found: International encyclopedia of dance, 1998(Blondy, Michel; born 1670 or 1676 in Paris; died August 6, 1739 in Paris; French dancer, teacher, choreographer, and dance academician; joined the Paris Opera around 1690 and in 1728 replaced Guillaume Louis Pécourt as its dance director, holding the position the rest of his life; appeared as a dancer in court ballets and choreographed some ballets at the Jesuit Collège Louis-le-Grand)

found: Oxford dictionary of dance (2nd edition), viewed online September 5, 2013(Blondy, Michel; born in Paris, probably 1676 or 1677; died August 6, 1739 in Paris; joined the Paris Opera in the 1690s; in 1729 became compositeur des ballets de l'Académie royale de musique (dance director of the Paris Opera))