France Travel Journal, Day 18 - bis

This musical posting is a bit of a stretch, in several ways. I was mislead by a sign that suggested the composer had been born in the Aveyron, though it turned out it was his father who had been. Also, it's not jazz.

On the other hand, it's an opera, and subject of which is Carmelite nuns and the French revolution.

Here's some extra info

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 1899 - 30 January 1963) was a French composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio,opera, ballet music, and orchestral music. Critic Claude Rostand, in a July 1950 Paris-Presse article, described Poulenc as "half monk, half delinquent" ("le moine et le voyou"), a tag that was to be attached to his name for the rest of his career.

Poulenc was a member of Les Six, a loose-knit group of young French and Swiss composers (it also included Milhaud, Auric,Durey, Honegger and Tailleferre) who had links with Erik Satie, Jean Hugo and Jean Cocteau. He embraced the Dada movement's techniques, creating melodies more appropriate for Parisian music halls than the concert hall.