Born in
Meaux, in 1801, Guillon had lessons at the school of the cathedral
Notre Dame de Paris with
Pierre Desvignes, before he joined the
Conservatoire de Paris to study
counterpoint with
François-Joseph Fétis and
musical composition with
Henri Montan Berton. At the same time he was double bassist at the
Opéra-Comique. In 1824, he won the
first Second Grand Prix de Rome with the
cantata Agnès Sorel. After his stay in the
Villa Medici in Rome, 1826–27, he settled in Venice. There he composed the opera
Maria di Brabante, which was performed in 1830 at the
Teatro La Fenice with great success. Later he gave up his musical career and turned to agriculture and silkworm breeding. At Treviso he built a factory for processing caterpillar cocoons. His innovations found the attention of Italian agricultural societies and the ''Société impériale et centrale d'agriculture''. He died in
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