Antoine Houdar de la Motte (18 January 1672 – 26 December 1731) was a French author. De la Motte was born and died in Paris. In 1693 his comedy, Les Originaux...

he published an Epître de Clio, a didactic poem in defense of Leriget de la Faye in his dispute with Antoine Houdar de la Motte, who had maintained that...

entered a new phase. He parodied Homer to serve the cause of Antoine Houdar de La Motte, (1672–1731) an ingenious paradoxer; Marivaux had already done...

contemporaries ascribed the prologue to Antoine Houdar de la Motte and the three acts of the opera to the Abbé de La Marre. Titon et l'Aurore belongs to the...

surname include: Antoine Houdar de la Motte (1672–1731), French author August de la Motte (1713–1788), Hanoverian general Benjamin Motte (1693–1738), English...

Wilcke, musician and father of Anna Magdalena Bach December 26 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, librettist (born 1672) Sven Hansell; Rebecca Green (2001). "Colla...

distress is based on Amadis de Grèce, a French tragédie-lyrique by André Cardinal Destouches and Antoine Houdar de la Motte. Amadigi was written for a...

prologue and four entrées by André Campra to a French libretto by Antoine Houdar de la Motte. The opera is regarded as the first opéra-ballet, with the entrées...

Palaprat (1650–1721) Antoine de La Fosse (1653–1708) Madame Ulrich (1665–1707) Antoine Houdar de La Motte (1672–1731) Pierre de Marivaux (1688–1763) Pierre-François...

tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Antoine Houdar de la Motte, is based on the Greek myth of Alcyone and Ceyx as recounted by...

publications of 1716. April 5 – Anne Lefèvre, Madame Dacier, meets Antoine Houdar de la Motte in person. May – Voltaire is exiled to Tulle as a result of his...

de Castro: tragedie is a French Tragedy play written by French playwright Antoine Houdar de la Motte. Inès de Castro was written by Antoine Houdar de...

others – The Rehearsal (published) Miguel de Barrios – El coro de las musas January 18 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer, (died 1731) March – Sir...

(Vanitas) but rather as a basis of social institutions, as it was for Antoine Houdar de la Motte. Requited love was, as in serious opera (the Tragédie en musique...

royale de musique on 3 September 1739: Momus amoureux, one-act ballet, presented on 27 October 1753: With Antoine Houdar de La Motte, argument de Titon...

and five acts. The libretto, by Antoine Houdar de La Motte, is based on the medieval romance Amadis de Gaula. La Motte's text was adapted to produce the...

Ward), English satirist and publican (born 1667) December 26 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French dramatist (born 1672) unknown date – Mohammed ibn Zakri...

her salon originated Antoine Houdar de la Motte's attacks on the three unities, on versification, and on Homer, whom Madame de Lambert thought dull;...

dramatists writing roles for Pierrot were Jean de Palaprat, Claude-Ignace Brugière de Barante, Antoine Houdar de la Motte, and Jean-François Regnard. They present...

Issé, composed by André Cardinal Destouches with libretto by Antoine Houdar de la Motte, premieres at the Palace of Fontainebleau in France. October 16...

or less original interpretations of the theme, French fabulist Antoine Houdar de la Motte harks back to the light-hearted approach of the Greek Anthology...

fruit) from the title page of Philips' work Cyder. February 8 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte is elected to the Académie française, taking the seat vacated...

"magic" opera, about a damsel in distress, based on the tragedy by Antoine Houdar de la Motte. The conception of an opera as a coherent structure was slow to...

Chhatrasal, Maharaja of Madhya Pradesh (b. 1649) December 26 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (b. 1672) December 29 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician...

a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Antoine Houdar de La Motte and Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre, is based on the life of the Albanian patriot...

French men of letters (including Antoine Houdar de la Motte) gave rise to a famous literary controversy. In 1714, La Motte published a poetical version of...

as a composer mainly rests. He had already approached writer Antoine Houdar de la Motte for a libretto in 1727, but nothing came of it; he was finally...

Antoine Houdar de La Motte, Paris, Théâtre de la rue des Fossés Saint-Germain, 4 June 1702: Le Bal d'Auteuil, comedy in 3 acts, Paris, Théâtre de la rue...

1574 – Charles de Lorraine, French cardinal (b. 1524) 1646 – Henri de Bourbon, prince of Condé (b. 1588) 1731 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French author...

Cudworth Masham, English philosopher and theologian (d. 1708) 1672 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French author (d. 1731) 1688 – Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of...