He was a man so talented that he became a favourite of the doomed Queen Marie Antoinette, and was described by the US President as the 'most accomplished man in Europe.' But Joseph Bologne, known among his contemporaries as Chevalier de Saint-Georges, certainly did not have the background expected of a member of Parisian high society.As new film Chevalier depicts, he was born to an enslaved Senegalese maid but still went on to be accomplished at fencing, shooting, dancing and, most famously, music.
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