sentences:  The name appears - crossed out - on the manuscript scores of two one-act Rameau operas, "La naissance d'Osiris" and "Nélée et Myrthis", suggesting they were once part of a larger work.The Rameau specialist Sylvie Bouissou believes the librettist was Louis de Cahusac and "Les beaux jours" was substantially complete by May 1751.Rameau and Cahusac's "Anacréon" would also have been part of "Les beaux jours" and both this act and "Nélée et Myrthis" would have had the ancient Greek poet Anacreon as the hero (Anacreon's name is crossed out and replaced by that of Nélée in the manuscript of the latter piece).