Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre

Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre, sieur de Langlade, was an 18th-century French novelist and playwright born in Cahors in 1662 and died 30 September 1756.

Royal censor, he authored a biography of Molière. He was wrongly attributed some works by Marguerite de Lussan.

Works

Librettos

• 1706: Polyxène et Pirrhus by Pascal Collasse
• 1710: Diomède by Toussaint Bertin de la Doué
• 1723: Pirithoüs by Jean-Joseph Mouret
• 1726: Pirame et Thisbé by François Francoeur and François Rebel
• 1735: Scanderberg by François Francoeur and François Rebel
• 1741: Nitétis by Charles-Louis Mion

Other

• 1727: Hippalque, prince scythe
• 1728: Amosis, prince égyptien
• 1734: Mémoire sur la vie et les ouvrages de Molière, in Œuvres de Molière, in-4°, tome VII

Bibliography

• Cardinal Georges Grente (dir.), Dictionnaire des lettres françaises. Le XVIIIe siècle, nlle. édition revue et mise à jour sous la direction de François Moureau, Paris, Fayard, 1995.

External links

• His plays and their presentations on CÉSAR
• Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre on data.bnf.fr