Ferrand, Antoine
(1678–1719)> LIBRETTIST
Ferrand, Antoine (1678, Paris; 1719, Paris), librettist, served as a lawyer in the courts of Paris besides writing witty epigrams and madrigals that enjoyed a wide circulation in the capital. Couperin set a volume of his songs to music, and he is believed to have collaborated with several novelists of his time in addition to having furnished a portion of the libretto for Les Caractères de l’amour mounted at the Palais-Royal by the Royal Academy of Music in 1738 (see seventeenth-century volume…