Collé, Charles
(1709–1783)> LIBRETTIST
Collé, Charles (14 April 1709, Paris; 3 November 1783, Paris), librettist, began to earn his livelihood as a clerk in various Paris offices and gave evidence of his future literary talents by writing nonsensical and salacious verse as a youth. He came to know the duke d’Orléans eventually and wrote light pieces for his theatrical entertainments. Encouraged by his newly discovered skill with dramatic compositions, he went on to do the words for La Partie de chasse de Henri IV (1762). This work…