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His last opera, "Les Paladins," was given in 1760, the composer being then seventy-seven. The bitterness of the art-feuds of that day, afterward shown in the Gluck-Piccini contest, was foreshadowed in that waged by Rameau against Lulli, and finally against the Italian newcomers, who sought to take possession of the French stage.
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