Birthed as it was on the eve of another revolution, Cappeau and Adam’s song was praised by French poet Alphonse de Lamartine ...

Watch Lea Salonga perform 'O Holy Night' with The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra. The Christmas poem “Minuit, chrétiens,” written by a French merchant Placide Cappeau, was set to music by famed French ...

Already controversial in in France, “Cantique de Noël” made some people uneasy; but in America, the English translation into “O Holy Night” dumped gasoline on a fire.