Mondorge, Antoine Gautier de

Mondorge, Antoine Gautier de (1707; ?), librettist, was a wealthy neighbor of La Pouplinière in Paris, and it was at the latter’s home that Mondorge came to know Rameau well enough to offer him the libretto of the opéra-ballet Les Festes d’Hébé of 1739, which he and an unidentified collaborator had just completed. Mondorge was a treasurer in the Chambre aux Deniers, a relatively unimportant post for a man of his wealth, but his interest in the stage and in letters were the relevant factors…