CLÉMENT Charles-François, born in Provence around 1720 and died in Paris in 1789, was professor of harpsichord in Paris,

where he published: three cantatilles entitled Le Départ des guerriers, le Retour des guerriers in 1750 and Le Célibat in 1762; a book of Sonates en Trio pour un Clavecin et un Violon5 in 1743; a Harpsichord Journal, containing ariettes and arias transcribed for Harpsichord alone or with violin accompaniments; The music was chosen from the interludes and the successful comic operas. This journal was published monthly in Paris during the years 1762, 1763, 1764 and 1765, in-4 ° obl.

He gave at the Théâtre-Italien La Pipée, in two acts (1756), which he parodied to the music of the Paratorio, opera by Jomelli, and at the Opéra-Comique, in the same year, the Bohémienne, in two acts.

Theoretical works: 1° Essai sur l'accompagnement du clavecin ; 1758, in-4° obl. ; — 2° Essai sur la basse fondamentale, pour servir de supplément à l'Essai sur l'accompagnement du clavecin et d'introduction à la composition pratique ; Paris, 1762, in-4° oblong. The second edition of these works appeared under this title: Essai sur l'accompagnement du clavecin par les principes de la composition pratique et de la basse fondamentale ; Paris, in-fol. obl. engraved, undated.

Initiated a Freemason, he was a member of the famous lodge Les Neuf Sœurs from 1778 to 1784.