Monticourt, Duplat de
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Monticourt, Duplat de (?; ?), librettist, has left no trace of his origins or ultimate fate, but it is remembered that he translated Moore’s Gamester into French in addition to supplying the libretto for Rameau’s Les Paladins in 1760. Collé seems to have disposed of him with admirable finality by observing that Cahusac “was a Quinault in comparison with him.” BIBLIOGRAPHY: Sort by:DefaultAuthorTitleDateAscendingDescending Philippe Beaussant, Rameau de A à Z (Paris: Fayard, 1983) 217; Gustave…