La Bruère, Charles-Antoine Le Clerc de
(1716–1754)> LIBRETTIST
La Bruère, Charles-Antoine Le Clerc de (1716, Paris; 1754, Rome), librettist, was a genteel nobleman for whom writing was an avocation, and his name seemed so irrelevant at first to the management of the Royal Academy of Music that he was not announced as the librettist of Rameau’s Dardanus until four days after its premiere on 19 November 1739. He also supplied the words for Rameau’s Linus, and he composed a new prologue for Philippe Quinault’s Persée in 1747 (also see seventeenth-century…