Lourdet de Santerre, Jean-Baptiste

Lourdet de Santerre, Jean-Baptiste (1735, Paris; 7 March 1815, Paris), librettist, was an auditor for the Crown, a royal counselor at the city hall in Paris, and a government censor. He became interested in the theatre through knowing Charles-Simon Favart and his wife, with whom he wrote Annette et Lubin for presentation privately and at the Théâtre-Italien in 1762. Although Santerre was neither a brilliant nor a popular playwright, he had three comedies billed at the Comédie-Française in…