Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre
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French novelist and playwright (1662–1756)
For other uses, see La Serre (disambiguation).
Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre, sieur de Langlade, was an 18th-century French novelist and playwright born in Cahors in 1662 and died 30 September 1756.
Royal censor, he authored a biography of Molière. He was wrongly attributed some works by Marguerite de Lussan.
Works
[edit ]Librettos
[edit ]- 1706: Polyxène et Pirrhus by Pascal Collasse
- 1710: Diomède by Toussaint Bertin de la Doué
- 1723: Pirithoüs by Jean-Joseph Mouret
- 1726: Pirame et Thisbé by François Francoeur and François Rebel
- 1735: Scanderberg by François Francoeur and François Rebel
- 1741: Nitétis by Charles-Louis Mion
Other
[edit ]- 1727: Hippalque, prince scythe
- 1728: Amosis, prince égyptien
- 1734: Mémoire sur la vie et les ouvrages de Molière, in Œuvres de Molière, in-4°, tome VII
Bibliography
[edit ]- Cardinal Georges Grente (dir.), Dictionnaire des lettres françaises. Le XVIIIe siècle, nlle. édition revue et mise à jour sous la direction de François Moureau, Paris, Fayard, 1995.
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