Cahusac, Jean-Louis de
(1706–1759)> LIBRETTIST
Cahusac, Jean-Louis de (6 April 1706, Montauban; 22 June 1759, Paris), librettist, studied law at Toulouse and became a lawyer before he decided to embark upon a career in letters. He was one of the founders of the literary society of Montauban in 1730, but he left this city for Orléans almost immediately to become secretary to the intendant Pajot. Cahusac had been working on the text of his tragedy Pharamond, and he left Orléans for Paris in 1733 to ready this work for production at Court in…