Joseph Aude

Joseph Aude (10 December 1755 – 5 October 1841) 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.

Biography He made his literary debut in 1776, with Fête des Muses, an à-propos in verse played at the Château de Versailles before the king and the court. He met Buffon at the Jardin du Roi, where chevalier de Mouchy, of the House of Noailles, a novelist and correspondent of Voltaire, had led him. Having become familiar with him in Paris, he was his guest at Montbard, but was not, contrary to popular belief, his personal secretary. librarian at the Académie de médecine, under the title: Notice sur Joseph Aude, chevalier de Malte, poète, auteur dramatique, dit le secrétaire de Buffon, présentée à la Société littéraire et scientifique d'Apt, aux imprimeries de J.-S. Jean.