Alexandre Guillaume Mouslier de Moissy (1712 - 8 November 1777) was a French writer and dramaturge. He was born and died in Paris. [1]
He was a royal guard when, at the age of 38, he was advised to assume a literary career. Encouraged by the success of his first work, he produced others.
Claude-Henri de Fusée, abbé de Voisenon was a French playwright and writer.
Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny was a French novelist and general writer.
David-Augustin de Brueys was a French theologian and playwright. He was born in Aix-en-Provence. His family was Calvinist, and he studied theology. After writing a critique of Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet's work, he was in turn converted to Catholicism by Bossuet in 1681, and later became a priest.
Louis Abel Beffroy de Reigny was a French dramatist and man of letters.
Pierre Laujon was a French playwright and chansonnier. He was uncle to the playwright Pierre-Yves Barré.
François-Georges Fouques Deshayes, known as Desfontaines or Desfontaines-Lavallée, was a French writer and playwright.
Jean-François Cailhava de L'Estandoux or d'Estendoux was a French dramatist, poet and critic.
Pierre Jean Hyacinthe Adonis Galoppe d'Onquaire was a French writer and playwright.
Nicolas-Étienne Framery was a French music theorist, critic and lyric writer associated with opera, especially opéra comique. He wrote and adapted librettos. His work became more academic and abstract and he eventually became surintendant de la musique for the Comte d'Artois,.
André-Joseph Panckoucke was a French author and bookseller. He was the first of the Panckoucke family directly or indirectly involved in French publishing.
Jacques-André Jacquelin was a French playwright, lyricist, chansonnier, goguettier and poet.
Barthélemy-Christophe Fagan, also known under the pen name Fagan de Lugny, was an 18th-century French playwright.
Joseph Aude was a familiar of Necker and Buffon whose biography he wrote as well as a comédie en vaudeville about his marriage, presented at the Société littéraire et scientifique d'Apt. Aude Joseph is considered an important author of the traveling theater of the early nineteenth, thanks to his Cadet Rousselle.
Antoine Jean Sticotti, called Toni or Fabio, (1715–1772) was an 18th-century French comedian and playwright born in the Friuli area of Northern Italy. He was the son of Fabio Sticotti and Ursule Astori.
Barthélemy Imbert was an 18th-century French playwright, poet and novelist.
Louis-François Jauffret was an 18th–19th-century French educator, poet and fabulist. Gaspard-André Jauffret, bishop of Metz, Jean-Baptiste Jauffret, director of the imperial institution of the deaf in St. Petersburg and Joseph Jauffret, master of requests to the Conseil d'État, were his brothers.
Nicolas Boindin was an 18th-century French writer and playwright.
Barnabé Farmian Durosoy, was an 18th-century French journalist and man of letters, both a playwright, poet, novelist, historian and essayist. Founder and editor of a royalist newspaper in 1789, he was the first journalist to die guillotined under the reign of Terror.
Jean-Auguste Jullien, called Desboulmiers, 1731, Paris – 1771, Paris, was an 18th-century French man of letters, historian of theatre and playwright.
Françoise-Albine Benoist was a French novelist, playwright and essayist born in Lyon.