La Serre, Jean-Louis-Ignace de, sieur de l’Anglade
(1662–1756)> LIBRETTIST
La Serre, Jean-Louis-Ignace de, sieur de l’Anglade (1662, Cahors; 30 September 1756, Paris), librettist, was born of a noble family in Normandy, but he came to Paris early in life to enjoy himself among the gayer social circles of the time. An inveterate gambler, he is said to have lost 25,000 livres at the gaming tables of the capital. He turned to literature to recoup his fortune, and he wrote poetry and fiction as well as plays for the Comédie-Française and librettos for the Opéra. The…