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French composer and poet Louise-Angélique Bertin was born in Les Roches, Essonne on 15 January 1805, into a family of influential newspaper editors. She studied with François-Joseph Fétis, and began writing operas when she was twenty.
She also wrote cantatas, ballades for piano, chamber symphonies, string quartets and a piano trio.
Louise Bertin died on 26 April 1877, aged seventy-two.