Destouches, Philippe Néricault

Destouches, Philippe Néricault DIT (9 April 1680, Tours; 4 July 1754, Villiers-en-Bière), librettist, is remembered on account of his comedies for the legitimate stage, but he also did a cluster of works for which Mouret wrote the music and which were performed at Sceaux for the duchess du Maine (see seventeenth-century volume for Mouret). He composed one work for the Royal Academy of Music, however, and Mouret set it for him. Entitled Les Amours de Ragonde, it was a revised version of his Le…