Jean-Baptiste de La Noue explained

Birth Name:Jean-Baptiste Simon Sauvé de La Noue
Birth Date:20 October 1701
Death Place:Paris
Occupation:Actor
Playwright
Years Active:1721-1757

Jean-Baptiste Simon Sauvé de La Noue[1] (20 October 1701 – 13 November 1760) was an 18th-century French actor and playwright.

Biography

He studied at collège d'Harcourt in Paris. After he made his debut as a comedian in Lyon around 1721 and directed the company of Rouen for six years, he joined the troupe of the Comédie-Française in 1742 of which he became the 122nd sociétaire the same year. He retired in 1757.[2]

He composed about ten comedies, including Mahomet second (1739)[3] parodied the same year by Charles-Simon Favart under the title Moulinet premier, Zélisca (1746) and La Coquette corrigée (1756).

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Notes and References

  1. Also spelt Lanoue or Lanouë.
  2. http://www.comedie-francaise.fr/la-grange-autorite.php?id=555&aut=00008022&ref=00005980&p=1 Base documentaire La Grange
  3. Not to be mistaken for the unfinished homonymous play by Marivaux (1733).