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Inspired by Napoléon’s campaign in Egypt and Syria, Hortense de Beauharnais (1783-1837) composed Partant pour la Syrie in about 1807. Songs and keyboard sonatas were composed. Real events were the source of Sophie Gail’s (1775-1819) opéra-comique Mademoiselle Launay à la Bastille (1813), based on the memoires of Mlle Launay, who was imprisoned in the Bastille from 1718 to 1720. Sophie Bawr (1773-1860) wrote the highly successful La Suite d’un Bal Masqué in 1813.