Autreau, Jacques
(1657–1745)> LIBRETTIST
Autreau, Jacques (1657, Paris; 18 October 1745, Paris), librettist, was the son of a wine dealer on the île Notre-Dame. He painted before he embarked upon a literary career at the age of sixty, and his poems sometimes came to be printed in Jean de La Fontaine’s works. Most of his theatrical compositions were accepted by the Comédie-Française and the Théâtre-Italien . In fact, his most important contribution to the stage might be said to have been his rescue of the Italian troupe when he…