Ballot de Sauvot
(†1761)> LIBRETTIST
BallotdeSauvot (?; 1761, ?), librettist whose name was also spelled Balot de Sovot, was a local official in Saint-Vrin near Arpajon before he made his presence felt on the eighteenth-century theatrical scene by revising Houdard de La Motte’s Pygmalion for its billing at the Palais-Royal on 27 August 1748 (see seventeenth-century volume for La Motte). The contemporary critic and journalist Charles Collé asserted that Ballot de Sauvot’s alterations in the libretto “disfigured” the original text…