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    Philippe Néricault Destouches (9 April 1680 – 4 July 1754) was a French playwright who wrote 22 plays. Destouches was born at Tours, in today's department...
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  • as Louis-Ferdinand Céline Lucette Destouches (1912–2019), French dancer, wife of Céline Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist Charles René Dominique...
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    Bretonneau (1660–1741), preacher, librettist and playwright. Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680–1754), dramatist and playwright. Louis Dutens (1730–1812)...
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  • de Quevedo por la corte John Durant Breval – The Strollers Philippe Néricault Destouches – Le Philosophe Marié (The Married Philosopher) Philip Frowde...
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  • Italian monk, mathematician, and engineer (b. 1671) 1754 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French playwright and author (b. 1680) 1761 – Samuel Richardson...
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  • Czech Jesuit missionary to South America (d. 1725?) 1680 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French playwright (d. 1754) 1686 – James Craggs the Younger...
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    1697) Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (b. 1690) July 4 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French playwright who wrote 22 plays (b. 1680) July 14 – François...
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    French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (d. 1767) April 9 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (d. 1754) April 23 – Anna Canalis di Cumiana...
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  • dated 1772–73 and the other 1774–75. In 1781 he made a bust of Philippe Néricault Destouches of the Académie française, which was installed at the Comédie-Française...
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    this era – Louis de Cahusac, Claude Crébillon, Charles Collé, Philippe Néricault Destouches, Charles Pinot Duclos, Barthélemy-Christophe Fagan, Jean-Baptiste-Louis...
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  • Sugathapala de Silva (1928–2002), Ceylon/Sri Lanka) in Sinhala Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680–1754, France) Jacques Deval (1894–1972, France) Edward...
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    Conceited Count, 1732), a smash-hit comedy written for him by Philippe Néricault Destouches. According to legend, the title character was based on Quinault-Dufresne...
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  • Lesage (1674–1762) Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1680–1754) Philippe Néricault Destouches (1688–1763) Pierre Carlet de Marivaux (1692–1754) Pierre-Claude...
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  • least referenced in the play La Fausse Agnes, a 1759 work by Philippe Néricault Destouches. French folklorist Paul Delarue noted its great popularity in...
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  • de Saint-Simon (1675–1755) Jean-François Boyer (1675–1755) Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680–1754) Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin (Madame de...
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    Inchbald, inspired by the 1727 French play Le Philosophe Marié by Philippe Néricault Destouches. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London on 15...
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  • opera in three acts by Jean-Joseph Mouret with a libretto by Philippe Néricault Destouches. It was first performed at the Château de Sceaux in December...
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  • inspired by the 1727 play Le Philosophe Marié by the French writer Philippe Néricault Destouches. The original Lincoln's Inn Fields cast included Lacy Ryan as...
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    French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (d. 1767) April 9 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (d. 1754) April 23 – Anna Canalis di Cumiana...
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  • novelist Jean Galbert de Campistron, 1701–1723, playwright Philippe Néricault Destouches, 1723–1754, playwright and diplomat Louis de Boissy, 1754–1758...
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  • Château de Fortoiseau, Villiers-en-Bière, place of death of Philippe Néricault Destouches, actor and dramatist. Château de Grandpuits, Grandpuits-Bailly-Carrois...
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    1. 1984. p. 408. ISBN 9780070791695. Hankiss, János (1981). Philippe Néricault Destouches: l'homme et l'oeuvre. Slatkine. ISBN 9782051002769. Fargher...
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  • French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (d. 1767) 9 April – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (d. 1754) 22 February – Catherine Monvoisin...
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  • December – Etienne Ozi, French composer (d. 1813) 4 July – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (b. 1680) 27 November – Abraham de Moivre...
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    December 1769. All in the Right, a farce, from the French of Philippe Néricault Destouches, 26 April 1766; not printed. The Fairy Favour, 1766, a masque...
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  • 1716 1718 Abbé Guillaume Dubois (later Cardinal) 1716 1722 Philippe Néricault Destouches, later comte de Langeron (Acting Attaché) 1718 1718 Yves d'Alègre...
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    Quinault created the role of Céliante in Le Philosophe marié by Philippe Néricault Destouches. It was an ideal role for her, a strange, proud, moody and capricious...
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  • Aldebert, Théâtre national de Chaillot 1949: Le Glorieux by Philippe Néricault Destouches, Théâtre de Chaillot 1950: Barabbas dit de la grotte by Michel...
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  • music: Fennimore and Gerda, Irmelin, A Village Romeo and Juliet Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680–1754) for Jean-Joseph Mouret: Les amours de Ragonde Eduard...
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    Holcroft's School for Arrogance, an adaptation of Le glorieux of Philippe Néricault Destouches. On 14 March he was the first Frank in O'Keeffe's Modern Antiques...
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