About Jean-Baptiste Sauvé de La Noue
Lived 1701 – 1760 (aged 59). Jean-Baptiste Sauvé de La Noue was a French actor, playwright and writer.
Jean-Baptiste Simon Sauvé de La Noue (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.
He composed about ten comedies, including Mahomet second (1739) parodied the same year by Charles-Simon Favart under the title Moulinet premier, Zélisca (1746) and La Coquette corrigée (1756).
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French actor
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Jean-Baptiste Sauvé de La Noue was born on 20 October 1701 in Meaux.
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Jean-Baptiste Sauvé de La Noue died on 13 November 1760 in Paris.
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Jean-Baptiste Sauvé de La Noue was an actor, playwright and writer.
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Jean-Baptiste Sauvé de La Noue was French.
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